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LaGuardia v. O'Brien v. McKee...
...three men. Tammany's chances of victory had never been slimmer, for against it were arrayed not one reform candidate, but two. One was the most aggressive figure in the city's political life. The other enjoyed the patronage of the White House. Joseph Vincent McKee was the last of the major candidates to have his name entered on the ballots. Twelve men staggered into the Board of Elections carrying nine fat volumes in which 115,000 people had signed their names petitioning that he be placed in the running. Many a signer had written in McKee...
...City's Fusionists boasted that their Mayoral candidate, onetime Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia, has the backing of Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, whose municipal investigations ran Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker out of the City Hall and into exile. Last week the followers of Independent Democratic Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee could match Inquisitor for Inquisitor with Fusion. On their ticket, as candidate for District Attorney, they got Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate's Wall Street investigation, quizzer last spring of J. P. Morgan & Co., last week of Dillon, Read...
...national implications of the McKee candidacy were clear. James Aloysius Parley, the Democracy's New York State as well as national chairman, had spent two days in the city prior to Mr. McKee's fateful announcement. He had been closeted with Edward Joseph Flynn, New York's Secretary of State, Democratic ruler of The Bronx, Mr. McKee's next door neighbor and political mentor and the sole wedge by which the Farley-Roosevelt State machine might dislodge Tammany from control of the city. The night before Mr. McKee declared himself, reporters found little pucker-faced Louis...
This scene considerably discounted the White House announcement of the week before that: "The President is giving no approval to any local candidate in any State." The President's good friend Vincent Astor was announced next day as one of McKee's financial backers. A good Roosevelt-Flynn Democrat, U. S. Collector of Customs Harry M. Dunning, became Candidate McKee's campaign manager. Observers believed that the President's hand had been forced after prognathous Mayor O'Brien had made such an unimpressive showing in the primaries which nominated him to succeed himself a week...