Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee as Mayor of New York did more to damage the reputation of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...
...Mayor McKee's first and most important attack was upon city finances?a subject about which "Jimmy" Walker talked loud but did little. During the Walker regime municipal expenses mounted at the rate of $95,747 per day. Mayor McKee started reducing them at the rate...
...shall refuse to vote to give this contract to other than the low bidder," announced Mayor McKee, "The Burland Company has been doing election work for the State as intricate as the work the city requires. Fifty thousand dollars is an awful lot of money. There's a wholly unjustifiable monopoly on city printing and so far as I'm concerned it is ended...
Seven Tammany votes on the Board lined up automatically for the Brown bid. But Mayor McKee mustered nine against its printing monopoly and the contract went to Burland. Savings...
After a personal visit to Wall Street Mayor McKee borrowed $17,000,000 to help run the city. Where "Jimmy" Walker had to pay 5¾% for money, "Holy Joe McKee got it for 5¼%. Saving...