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...money. In Woodside. L. I., lived the biggest U. S. winner-Mrs. William Meringer, whose ticket on Golden Miller was worth $150,000. She got her ticket, she said, from her Austrian husband. William Meringer told an unlikely story of how he had come by it. Into the Bronx restaurant where he worked as chef there had walked one evening a sleek fat man who had called for a dish of hasenpfeffer, Chef Meringer's specialty.* After he had eaten three plates of it, he sent for the cook, gave him the sweepstakes ticket for a reward. Chef Meringer...
...Observer remarks that "as a statesman, he is an excellent chauffeur," but gives him full marks as a politician. "Next to Roosevelt, he has the best glands in Washington." But the coming man of national Democratic politics, says the Observer, is little-known Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx. "Mystery man of Roosevelt's Black Chamber" is Frank C. Walker, until lately treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. "Together with Farley and Flynn, he is a tacit reminder that Roosevelt's strongest single element of strength is the Catholic Church. . . ." Observer casts his vote for "slickest politician...
...beaten by the henchmen of Edward J. Flynn, who was reappointed New York Secretary of State by Governor Lehman when he took office. Flynn is the Democratic boss of The Bronx. While serving as Governor Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Boss Flynn broke with Tammany, cannily made an alliance with Mr. Roosevelt's political right hand, Boss Farley. That alliance continued through the Chicago Convention, through the municipal elections last autumn when Farley and Flynn backed a "Recovery" ticket. They were beaten but defeat did not dampen their ambitions. Tammany was also licked and they saw a chance...
Reporter Corrigan works for no newspaper, yet New York City's dailies could hardly get along without him. He is a district man for City News Association, which, covers Manhattan and The Bronx (pop.: 3,170,000) exactly as the Associated Press covers the world. He and 60 others like him keep 24-hour watch over every police station, every court, every jail, every hospital, every morgue and every administrative office in the two boroughs. Whenever and wherever news breaks City Newsmen are usually the first to spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come...