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...office force of 17 cost the city $116,730. Candidate LaGuardia recalled that although Mr. McKee had written the Mayor in 1926 that he would attend no more secret conferences on the notorious Equitable Bus franchise deal, a flagrant piece of grafting which did more than anything else to oust Mayor Walker (TIME, June 6, 1932), McKee did later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They're mak-ing a primary out of an election. Fusion nominated a ticket...
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...
...since July 25. Their thankless job was to mete out justice to eleven Army cadets, confessed conspirators in the assassination of "Pacifist" Premier Ki Inukai (TIME, May 23, 1932). Not only for this are the cadets national heroes. They also plotted a coup to tear up the Japanese constitution, oust "grafting politicians" and restore "direct Imperial rule." Clearly the judges, who might themselves be assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with relief to the August Spirit of the Meiji Emperor...
...proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau y San Martin in favor of sly, bearded General Mario G. Menocal, onetime President of Cuba (1913-21). General Menocal deceived nobody when he proclaimed: "I probably have less personal ambition than any man in Cuba...
...Pastor Robinson angrily struck Businessman Ackerman, who retaliated. Businessman Ackerman held a $10,000 bond as guarantor of a mortgage on the church. To protect his investment he bid in the church at a foreclosure sale. Last week he presented his fellow Lutherans with an ultimatum: they could oust Pastor Robinson and buy Businessman Ackerman's church, or they could get out. The congregation promptly got out, taking their pastor with them and setting up a church of their own in a private house. Businessman Ackerman ruefully surveyed his Church-by-the-Sea, wondered what one can do with...