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...week of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee as Mayor of New York did more to damage the reputation of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...
...Mayor McKee's first and most important attack was upon city finances?a subject about which "Jimmy" Walker talked loud but did little. During the Walker regime municipal expenses mounted at the rate of $95,747 per day. Mayor McKee started reducing them at the rate...
Without even the formality of an oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With...
...Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River. As a boy he sold newspapers. At Fordham University he was an honor graduate. Before studying law he taught Latin and Greek at his Alma Mater, English in one of the city's high schools. He still writes magazine articles under the name of James W. Dawson. A good Democrat, he is not a Tammany man. His political mentor is New York's Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected...
...November election? First to be settled was the legal question of whether or not New York should choose another Mayor this year. The law provides that a "vacancy occurring before Oct. 15 shall be filled at the next general election." But was the mayoralty "vacant" with Mr. McKee in City Hall? Only the courts can answer...