Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Seabury, sailing for Europe, compared the Governor to Grover Cleveland and the Mayor's resignation to a confession of guilt. And seven million New Yorkers had a new chief executive in the person of 43-year-old Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee...
Without even the formality of an oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With...
...Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River. As a boy he sold newspapers. At Fordham University he was an honor graduate. Before studying law he taught Latin and Greek at his Alma Mater, English in one of the city's high schools. He still writes magazine articles under the name of James W. Dawson. A good Democrat, he is not a Tammany man. His political mentor is New York's Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected...
...November election? First to be settled was the legal question of whether or not New York should choose another Mayor this year. The law provides that a "vacancy occurring before Oct. 15 shall be filled at the next general election." But was the mayoralty "vacant" with Mr. McKee in City Hall? Only the courts can answer...
...Subscriber McKee reconsider his decision. TIME, Feb. 1, was reporting the contents of 'Mental Healers, in which Stephen Zweig gives his account of Franz Anton Mesmer (mesmerism), Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science), Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis...