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...mayoral situation was further complicated by the presence of Joseph Vincent McKee in city hall. In a month bus}7, honest, economizing Acting Mayor McKee had gained immense popularity. He wanted to stay in office. But Tammany would have none of him because his economy campaign pinched jobholders severely. Last week there was talk that Mr. McKee, a Bronx Democrat independent of Tammany, might head an independent ticket against Tammany's Walker...
...electro-magnetic field from time to time so that they light up in weird pale colors (''first time on any stage" I. The behavior of The Most Beautiful Girls In The World is a little subdued this year. Presumably as a result of Mayor "Holy Joe" McKee's theatrical clean-up campaign, even in the big Spirit of the Blue Danube number not a single Carrollite breast is bared. But in all other respects, especially in dirty remarks, the new Carroll revue lives up to the tradition of its predecessors...
Scowling hugely, New York City's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Norris recently stormed into the "House of Breathless Men," as morgue attendants euphemistically call their nose-stinging structure. On Dr. Norris' mind was an order from Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory...
Last week came another blow. Mayor McKee forbade Dr. Norris' medical assistants the dignity of hiring private cars by the hour. They must use taxicabs, which are more economical. Huffed, Dr. Norris did what many an official anywhere would like to afford doing. He at once resigned...
...pathological laboratories, replaced the fee-grabbing coroners of the five boroughs which compose New York City. A few years later Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike'') Hylan slighted one of Dr. Norris' aides. Dr. Norris promptly mailed his resignation. Mayor Hylan tore it up. Last week Mayor McKee, more of a diplomat, accepted Dr. Norris' resignation and then persuaded him to withdraw...