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How Not to Get Elected. When Mayor LaGuardia was elected he found himself in charge of a city which had a debt of $1,800,000,000, about 50% greater than the public debt of the U. S. when he was elected to Congress in 1916. He found a city...
But his savings were none the less real, for he took a down-at-heel city and gave it desperately needed equipment, scores of new school buildings, sewage plants and incinerators, $7,000,000 worth of snow-removal equipment, more than double the number of playgrounds and dental clinics for...
The Game of Politics. LaGuardia is today supremely confident of being reelected. Even in 1933 with the Republican machine solidly behind his Fusion ticket he did not win a majority in any borough, only a bare 800,000 out of 2,000,000 votes split three ways. That he may...
Grover Whalen and his supporters are just as placid in their own conviction of success. Where, they ask, in any great American city has a man without a machine succeeded in beating a machine? Only Dr. Copeland is perhaps without such placid assurance. The strength he musters must come from...
Died-James J. Dooling, 44, leader since 1934 of New York's Tammany Hall; following an apoplectic stroke; in New York (see p. 12).