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...resulted. New York City now has five "little Mayors" (borough presidents), five district attorneys, five sheriffs, an unwieldy Board of Aldermen (69 members). Its eight-man Board of Estimate can hamstring the Mayor at will. The present board has so notoriously scotched the economy program of Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent McKee and failed to economize by itself, that last week Acting Governor (elect) Herbert H. Lehman had to call a special Legislative session Dec. 9 to consider amending mandatory municipal pay scales for New York City...
...after New York City's special mayoralty election it was announced that Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, no candidate, had received some 137,000 "protest" votes, to the alarmed dismay of Tammany Hall and its bull-jowled nominee for Mayor, John Patrick ("Potatoes") O'Brien. To cast a McKee vote citizens had to write his name in on voting machines-a process hampered by ignorance, lack of pencils and the hostility of Tammany election officials...
Take a Chance (book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack...
...construction cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund?an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal...
...Vincent Astor...