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...machine by persuasion and tact. If there is any man who can do for the Republican Presidential candidate what James A. Farley did for Franklin Roosevelt, it is Joe Martin. Roosevelt's Ed Flynn is an earthy politician whose experience is highly practical but largely limited to The Bronx...
...Taxi Bronx Taxi Driver John Crowe got into an altercation with Patrolman Filomeo Saviola, was promptly jailed for disorderly conduct. He won a suspended sentence by signing a pledge: "I apologize to this police officer and promise that never again in my life will I commit a similar offense-that is, calling policemen screwballs...
...from Constantinople in 1913; more plotting in Zurich and Paris; expulsion from France in 1916; Spain and ten weeks in the U. S., where he played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after the March Revolution of 1917, where he joined Lenin, helped to stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat...
Finally the President chose Boss Edward Joseph Flynn of The Bronx, who said: "I do not hope to equal the record of my predecessor and friend, Jim Farley, but I will do my best...
...Bronx Boy. Irish Catholic Ed Flynn was born, reared, schooled (at Fordham University) in New York City's teeming Borough of The Bronx. He is a graduate cum laude of the seamy school of politics. But no seams show on Edward J. Flynn. At 48 he is trimly built, iron-grey, dresses even more splendidly than Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Blackest spot that Boss-Buster Tom Dewey could find on Ed Flynn was the fact that when he was Sheriff of The Bronx (1921-25) one of his deputies was Gangster Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer...