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...years in terms of public service rather than circulation or profit, points out that the paper has made a place for itself in the nation's largest and most competitive community. This fact few could deny after the World-Telegram, unsupported by any other important metropolitan paper, helped Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia into City Hall in 1934. turning out Tammany for the first time since the old World ousted...
...Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots were counted by the lazy and inefficient clerks, it appeared more & more certain that Gomez had won. This week, four days & nights after the voting ended, the Government did not yet have final returns. But Gomez' Fusion ticket was well in the lead in the voting for President, for the Governors of all six provinces and for all the Senate candidates. Since the Coalition parties had split up when it came to nominating candidates for the House of Representatives, Menocal's men seemed to have pocketed...
Died. Bernard Seymour Deutsch, 51, president of New York's Board of Aldermen and onetime (1929-March 1935) president of the American Jewish Congress; suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; at his home in The Bronx. Mr. Deutsch became active in politics in 1932, was elected to office on the Fusion ticket the following year. By his death Tammany Hall regains control of the Board of Estimate...
...Vermont, once an assistant to the U. S. Senate's chaplain, once an assistant to Princeton's Bill Roper in organizing the Woodrow Wilson Independent League in Philadelphia, Davis Wilson assisted shy WillB Hadley two years ago to become Philadelphia's treasurer on a Democratic-Fusion ticket. At the same time Davis...
...political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson to dramatize him for political purposes. After Philadelphia's late Republican Boss Vare refused them nominations for City Treasurer and Controller respectively in 1933, Political Partners Hadley and Wilson helped junk the Republican machine by winning their jobs on the Democratic-Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket. This year their friendship turned to bitter rivalry when each one decided to go after the Republican nomination for Mayor (TIME, Sept. 16). Philadelphians, curious to know which member of the onetime partnership had been its political brains, watched their contest eagerly. So did outsiders interested in seeing...