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"Ideal Democratic weather," pronounced Tammany Hall's ruddy old Leader Christopher D. Sullivan at another polling place an hour-and-a-quarter later. "Touch of frost and a slight overcast."
What made these auguries even more empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his...
Within three hours after the polls had closed that evening, every New Yorker knew that a LaGuardia landslide, fully as sweeping as expected, had perhaps permanently changed the political landscape of the biggest city in the U. S. Candidate Mahoney's congratulatory telegram was sent from his headquarters at...
The Music Hall canard is worse than bad news reporting; it is a printer's error. TIME wrote two statements coupled by the word "and": "Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly, and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in...
Fortnight ago the colleges had undergone a less heralded but more significant change, the advent of a new administration. City College is ruled by a Board of Higher Education of 21 members, who are appointed by the Mayor for nine-year terms. For 20 years board and college had been...