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Rehearsals for the play will begin this afternoon. The following is the tentative cast: Whitney M. Cook '36; John Cromwell '36; Bruce H. Fernald '37; Robert Gardner-Medwin, sS.A.; A.; Paul Killian, Jr. '37; Robert L. McKee '37; Charles Sedgewick '34; Richard C. Sullivan '35, and Arthur Szathmary '37. Mary Constable, Louise Graham, Lois Hall, and Elizabeth Morison are the Radcliffe students who will play the feminine roles...
...McKee (cont...
With New York City's most turbulent Mayoral election in 20 years only eight days away, last week the semi-final results of the Literary Digest's straw poll stood: Fusion Candidate Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, 217,599; Recovery Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee, 169,715; Tammany's Candidate, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, 51,562. Undoubtedly Candidate LaGuardia had drawn ahead for a while in the preceding fortnight but other, more up-to-date straw-voting persuaded Wall Street betters to reinstate McKee last week-end as the favorite at even money, with odds against LaGuardia...
Candidates McKee and LaGuardia were fighting the contest bitterly. LaGuardia accused McKee of hounding a Seabury investigation witness to death, of reinstating a dismissed assistant when the assistant threatened to report McKee's misdoings as Aldermanic President, of being a Jew-baiter, a foe of women's suffrage. McKee accused LaGuardia of being a Communist, a liar. Candidate LaGuardia re ported to NRAdministrator Johnson that a member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee...
...boss system, after all, except the development of that quality of human nature which makes one man the leader among his fellows, the man of light and leading among his associates?" Compared to the light of Tammany's Boss Curry, he said, "The word of Flynn [McKee's boss] is as light as a half-burned match." And should Judge Seabury, LaGuardia's boss, come into power, "He will, in my opinion, give us an example of iron discipline and arbitrary action that will make the town sigh for the gentleness of Croker or the softness...