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...shall refuse to vote to give this contract to other than the low bidder," announced Mayor McKee, "The Burland Company has been doing election work for the State as intricate as the work the city requires. Fifty thousand dollars is an awful lot of money. There's a wholly unjustifiable monopoly on city printing and so far as I'm concerned it is ended...
Seven Tammany votes on the Board lined up automatically for the Brown bid. But Mayor McKee mustered nine against its printing monopoly and the contract went to Burland. Savings...
After a personal visit to Wall Street Mayor McKee borrowed $17,000,000 to help run the city. Where "Jimmy" Walker had to pay 5¾% for money, "Holy Joe McKee got it for 5¼%. Saving...
Unannounced Mayor McKee dropped in on the $19,000,000 Bronx Terminal Market. He found in this huge municipal building two grocers and two vegetable dealers paying a total rent of $26,000 per year. Not more than ten city employes were visibly at work. Back at City Hall he learned that the market's payroll and upkeep alone was costing the city $162,480 per year. Summoning his Commissioner of Markets, he told him that unless he remedied this "shocking condition," in two days, he would be ignominiously "fired." Two days later Tammany-backed William F. Dwyer was ousted...
...Communist delegation of 50 was received at City Hall?something Mayor Walker would never have braved. Mayor McKee listened to their extravagant relief demands, then challenged them as to how their ends could be legally met. Wriggling and squirming under his superior logic, Reds weakly retorted that that...