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From the sunkissed shores of Staten Island to the rock-bound coast of The Bronx, New York City voters went to the polls last week to vote in a primary election. One hoodlum was shot to death, a score were slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation...
...What did worry Boss Curry, and Fusionist La Guardia, too, was a trip which Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn made to Washington to see Postmaster General Farley, who is the Democracy's New York state as well as national chairman. Mr. Flynn is Democratic boss of The Bronx, represents the national party organization in New York City, has received most of the Federal patronage and dislikes Tammany. Unenthusiastic over Mayor O'Brien's showing at the polls, he knew that in recent straw votes conducted by the police for Tammany, Mayor O'Brien had made...
...Gorgas Memorial Laboratory (medical research) in Panama City has a few live vampires. Bronx Zoo officials know of no others...
...Works Administrator Ickes last week ran his total allotment of Federal loans for low-cost housing up from $22,165,000 to $34,942,000 when he tentatively approved four more building projects. They were: $5,184,000 to Hillside Housing Corp. for some 115 apartment houses in The Bronx, N. Y.; $2,965,000 to Hallets Cove Garden Homes, Inc. for 31 apartment houses on the Queens bank of New York's East River; $4,460,000 to the Community Plan Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to replace 750 slum buildings with 200 new houses...
There was a chorus of Bronx cheers...