Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt took his guests, including Mayor LaGuardia of New York City and Representative Caroline O'Day of New York, to see how his "dream house" is coming along. The fieldstone walls were all up, the roof was going on. Secret Service men looked skeptical when the President declared that in his new hideaway there would be no telephone, no radio, no guards except an electric eye to fire a gun if any intruder came too close...
...York City's Fusionist Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was given: 1) permission to exempt from the city's constitutional debt limit a new bond issue up to $315,000,000 for a unified city-owned subway system; 2) a Home Rule provision restricting the power of the legislature to interfere in city affairs by passing "emergency laws...
...provision was written into the new constitution requiring New York City to give up its system of election by proportional representation which, since its adoption last year, has proved a grave disadvantage to political machines...
...convention moved toward adjournment last week, its outstanding leader was Alfred Emanuel Smith, four times New York's Governor. Red of nose, nasal of voice, quick of wit as ever, Al Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well...
Arraigned in Brooklyn last week charged with possessing a single lottery slip in New York City's celebrated Numbers game was one James Hines, Negro...