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...Flynn is a tall, smooth, peaceable fellow who lives at 2728 Hudson Parkway, The Bronx, N.Y. To some of his chums it would come as a matter of no surprise to hear he had jumped off a roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...President is already so pressed for time that he has fumbled the political efforts he has made; e.g., the New York campaign. While Flynn is able enough as the Boss of The Bronx, that wilderness of apartment houses which is the greatest single Democratic stronghold north of the Mason & Dixon line, he is no James Aloysius Farley on a national scale, and has never pretended to be. If the President is going to wrest a Democratic victory this fall, he must do it mainly alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...Flynn Problem. One thing Edward Joseph Flynn, of The Bronx, can do: hold The Bronx fast as the great Democratic fortress. The Bronx is his own, his native land, where the pewter-haired, craggy-faced, hazel-eyed Irishman is master of nearly all he surveys from his ninth-floor terrace apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...firm of Goldwater & Flynn, which prudently takes no Federal or State business, has prospered throughout thick years & thin, and unquestionably will continue to prosper. For all of the 1,349,711 citizens of The Bronx (a population larger than that of any of 15 States; greater than that of the South's three largest cities put together-Houston, New Orleans. Louisville) know Ed Flynn is a solid character, who always delivers when he gives his word. They know he has never had real ambitions outside The Bronx-that he loves it from the zoo (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...York Times and Herald Tribune. The tabloid, comics-choked morning News has the largest daily circulation (2,007,797) of any newspaper. The conservative Sun and its afternoon feature-story rival, the World-Telegram, are commuters' specials. And there are half a dozen other papers not counting The Bronx News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Caesar | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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