Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city health commissioner. In 1922 when Al Smith was running for Governor, a piece of good fortune fell into the doctor's lap. Since Smith refused to have Hearst, who wanted nomination for U. S. Senator, on the same ticket, someone suggested Copeland. He proved a surprising vote-getter, for, like elephants, mothers never forget; they had not forgotten all the worthy advice Dr. Copeland as columnist and health commissioner had given them on the care of babies. He was elected, re-elected in 1928, re-elected in 1934, for though Jim Farley and Franklin Roosevelt did not love...
...other boroughs and accepting their ticket. Then, three days later Leader Dooling died. So, in the Democratic primary in September, bereaved Tammany, with its own ranks split, will try to nominate a candidate for mayor opposed by the political machines of four boroughs in which there are three votes to every vote in Manhattan...
Bedside Manner-The man on whom Tammany last week bestowed its standard was a U. S. Senator. Certain was Tammany that it needed a potent vote-getter to win and who could be better than one of its own sons, Bob Wagner, son of a German janitor, brought up in Yorkville (Manhattan's East Side German district), beloved of Labor because lie is credited with authorship of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. But Senator Wagner, although he called politely at Tammany Hall, declined the honor. So Tammany finally staked its bets on a onetime Republican mayor of Ann Arbor...
...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 carry Manhattan where Tammany itself is split and where he has long had constituents is obviously possible, but has high hopes for Kings and Queens-and knaves. Just a little too-obvious knavery in the ranks of his opponents will drive the independent vote into his arms. And he hopes...
...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 a battered Tammany machine, and from the antis-anti-LaGuardia, anti-New Dealers-a vote whose total is problematic. If Grover Whalen wins it will be an historic election. It will mean the end of Tammany as the machine in New York City politics. Barbaric conquerors from the provinces will tramp through Tammany's proud hall. But if LaGuardia wins. Tammany Hall...