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Last year, as acting Mayor for 16 weeks after James John Walker's flight, clean-cut, grinning little Joseph Vincent McKee was the idol, the White Hope of thousands of New Yorkers who mortally hate & fear the yoke of Tammany. He had striven for municipal economies. Although he prided himself on his Democratic regularity, in Board of Estimate meetings he did not seem afraid to swap punches with Tammany. When bumbling John Patrick O'Brien was propped up in the special Mayoral election last November by Tammany, many a citizen was puzzled at Mr. McKee's unwillingness...
Last spring Mr. McKee made no effort to have his name entered in the Democratic primaries voted last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 2). He preferred to retire to a $50,000-a-year bank job. He was offered the top place on a Fusion ticket to oust Tammany from the City Hall in next month's elections. Like Caesar, Joseph McKee for the third time waved away his honors. It therefore surprised many of his fellow citizens, disgusted many more, and dismayed both Fusion and Tammany when, last week, after a fortnight's indecision culminating in a 48-hour...
...knew his own mind. . . . The fact remains that the best hope of a successful attack upon Tammany lies in the Fusion ticket." The World-Telegram turned furiously on its former champion: "'A plague on ALL bosses!' becomes more than ever the slogan since the McKee decision...
...awkward efforts to rule out the resolution, he was doomed to failure, for in a party caucus such a resolution is a conventional thing, and cannot be ruled out with any degree of urbanity. This makes his position as the godfather, through Roosevelt, of the candidacy of Joseph V. McKee, and his scorn, also through Roosevelt, of Dr. O'Brien, pretty thoroughly embarrassing. Possibly the Secretary can slide out from under, but he is a man physically and mentally bulky, and not suited to this kind of legerdemain. And Mr. Curry, we may be sure, will look with unexampled vigilance...
...most of the Federal patronage and dislikes Tammany. Unenthusiastic over Mayor O'Brien's showing at the polls, he knew that in recent straw votes conducted by the police for Tammany, Mayor O'Brien had made a poor showing. The chances of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, last year's able and economical Acting Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket in 1934, the national ticket in 1936, Boss Farley went...