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One of the most amazing statements put out in the current political campaign in New York City is the assertion by Judge Mahoney that Mayor LaGuardia has destroyed the morale of the Police Department and allowed the administration of justice to sink to a low ebb. Aside from the fact...
Unlike the political sham-battle now raging on Beacon Hill, where hardly a single candidate can be found who combines honesty with great ability, the current mayoralty campaign in New York City sees for the first time in a generation the forces of corruption arrayed in a clean-cut warfare...
The Democratic party in the city has of course been laboring under unusual hardships in the last half decade. It was tragic to have their popular leader Jimmy Walker quit the country under fire on the heels of the Seabury investigation of municipal vice and corruption in 192, and it...
Thus the Democratic opposition this fall has at best been half-hearted and disorganized. In the primaries Tammany Hall committed the political blunder of putting up Senator Copeland on an anti- New Deal platform and was soundly trounced for its trouble by Mahoney, the hand picked Farley candidate from the...
Of the charge of extravagance, the Fusion administration might seem guilty on the surface, since the budget for the city has risen. But the causes for this rise were mandatory charges imposed by the new charter, the introduction of the three platoon system in the fire department and the eight...