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Through all this, Mayor LaGuardia went smilingly about his business. He jeered at the three Irishmen (Boss Flynn of the Bronx, Boss Kelly of Brooklyn and O'Dwyer) who had patched together the Democratic ticket. Said The Hat: "It looks to me like a case of rape by acquiescence and consent, and a good time was enjoyed...
...hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County, Wyo. held "pie socials." Funnyman S. J. Perelman and Author John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson exhorted the people of Pittsburgh. Troops simulated airborne attacks on Chicago. In The Bronx, bond-buyers were allowed to ring a replica of the Liberty Bell. In Manhattan, buyers were permitted to eat their way through a five-layer, six-foot-high cake, or take a trip through a model aircraft carrier...
Affable, handsome Henry Sloane Coffin, ordained in the Presbyterian Church at the age of 23, began his ministry humbly -in a room over a Bronx fish market. Last week he ended 19 years as president of one of Protestantism's most outstanding theological schools, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Coffin had reached Union's retirement age (68) and was making way for Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's professor of systematic theology (TIME...
...Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...
...Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, then Democratic National Chairman, got Pauley to take over the raising of money in eleven western states-a job Pauley did so successfully that Flynn soon made him a regional director for the party. Two years later Franklin Roosevelt asked him to become the party's secretary-treasurer to wipe out a deficit of $750,000. Ed Pauley did the job. By last summer he was a big-enough shot to poke wavering delegates in the chest with a heavy forefinger, nudge them into line for Harry Truman. His sales talk...