Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...architect he designed the Soldiers & Sailors monument in Albany, the Civil War Memorial in Philadelphia, the City Club of New York, the McKinley Memorial at Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County Building showing the history of Mayor McKee's bailiwick from its foundation by Patroon Jonas Bronck. As a stage designer he made the maquettes for the U. S. production of Rostand's Chantecler...
Unannounced Mayor McKee dropped in on the $19,000,000 Bronx Terminal Market. He found in this huge municipal building two grocers and two vegetable dealers paying a total rent of $26,000 per year. Not more than ten city employes were visibly at work. Back at City Hall he learned that the market's payroll and upkeep alone was costing the city $162,480 per year. Summoning his Commissioner of Markets, he told him that unless he remedied this "shocking condition," in two days, he would be ignominiously "fired." Two days later Tammany-backed William F. Dwyer was ousted...
...Communist delegation of 50 was received at City Hall?something Mayor Walker would never have braved. Mayor McKee listened to their extravagant relief demands, then challenged them as to how their ends could be legally met. Wriggling and squirming under his superior logic, Reds weakly retorted that that...
...election Nov. 8. Through his onetime law partner and a nominal plaintiff, Mayor McKee went to court to void the Board's order, hold his job until Jan. 1, 1934. At stake was the question of whether the Mayor's office was legally vacant. Mayor McKee said he wanted to save the city the expense of a special election...
These activities tended to depress the political stock of Citizen Walker. Whether Tammany would put him up for reelection or not remained as unsettled as ever. Mayor McKee was off to such a good start that many a wiseacre was sure that "Jimmy" Walker would never be able to regain his old job at the polls. The ex-Mayor, whom local cinema crowds were booing more & more in the newsreels, seemed to feel somewhat the same way when he suddenly sailed on the Conte Grande for a three weeks' health trip abroad. Mused he: "Why is it they've done...