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...hands. As a result of his regularity, when his candidacy was announced organization Democrats defected from Tammany in wholesale lots. It was reported that 15 out of 24 Brooklyn district leaders had bolted to the Recovery ticket. The Tammany candidate for Borough President of Staten Island came out for McKee. In Queens County, Tammany was faced with further desertions. When Candidate McKee awakened to the fact that rats from Boss Curry's sinking ship endangered the buoyancy of his own, he announced that "only fine, decent people" would be tolerated in the Recovery Party, that far from welcoming bolters...
...Holy Joe" McKee tried hard to renounce ALL party affiliations, including his connection with his next-door neighbor, Bronx Boss Flynn. He had previously told reporters that if they saw him on the 29th floor of the Lincoln Building, he would not be going to see Flynn but to rest in another friend's neighboring office. He promised to reduce the budget "by instituting real economies," abolish duplicating departments in the city government by having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would...
...Walker for Mayor, bringing charges of malfeasance against Walker which initiated the Seabury investigations. Last week his downtown Italian district went Democratic, failed to return him to Congress. He likes to mix salads, play the trombone and will fight at the drop of a hat. Making four speeches to McKee's one, he did not let his opponent's charges go long unnoticed. He, too, had pledged charter reforms and at the Harvard Club had impressed many of his conservative listeners, to whom his past radicalism was the cause of grave suspicion, with a plan to refinance...
...Jewish following is strong in McKee's Bronx. "I call on you," he wired LaGuardia, "to disavow it unequivocally and without reservation...
...trying to draw a red herring across the cowardly, contemptible and unjust attack that you have made and published against a great race so gloriously represented by our governor?" reported Candidate LaGuardia. "Answer that, Mr. McKee. and think twice before you send me another telegram." An article McKee wrote for Catholic World in 1915 which slurred the character of the average Jewish student in New York's schools, was thus added as fuel to the leaping fires of altercation...