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To assure themselves a chance to vote in their most critical Mayoral election since 1913, New Yorkers swarmed to registration places all last week. When the Board of Registry closed its books, 2,322,382 citizens had entered their names-a turnout 6% greater than the city's vote...
(3 of 8) tails. His practice of having all Aldermanic meetings opened with prayer earned him the nickname "Holy Joe." As Acting Mayor, he announced before a patronage conference with Tammany Leader John Francis Curry: "I am an organization Democrat, always have been, always will be." But he dismissed a...
"Holy Joe" McKee tried hard to renounce ALL party affiliations, including his connection with his next-door neighbor, Bronx Boss Flynn. He had previously told reporters that if they saw him on the 29th floor of the Lincoln Building, he would not be going to see Flynn but to rest...
Back in the U. S. after the War both Democrats and Republicans elected him to the 66th Congress. Then he began to kick up his heels in earnest. He adhered to no party, ran with Democrats, Republicans, Sons of the Wild Jackass, Farmer Laborites, at will. On "Calendar Wednesdays," when...
John Patrick O'Brien's speech sonorously accepting Tammany's renomination was loyally cheered by several hundred city employes but, since no newspaper was interested in him, it made scant news. Accurately he observed: "Everyone knows that the 5? fare does not permit a sufficient return on...