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...political Twins Hadley and Wilson hoped to force Boss Vare to nominate them in 1933, respectively, for City Treasurer and Controller. Boss Vare balked. Messrs. Hadley and Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...
These soups are a synopsis of the National Hearth and I know of no better synthesis wherein all the integrated ingredients acquire a more intimate fusion lor the benefit of the whole. PETER BORRAS...
...Home Owners Loan Corp., which doles out cash for back taxes in addition to refunding mortgages. Despite frequent crises over piffling sums for relief, New York City's credit is now better than at any time in the past four years.* More responsible than Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration, which has pared expense and tightened the budget, has been a marked increase in tax collections. A 2% retail sales tax helps to finance unemployment relief which now costs the city $5,000,000, the State $5,000,000 and the Federal Government $10,000,000 per month...
...Returning to the University, he reversed his views despite the opposition of the Dutch faculty, restored Englishmen to their posts and became a loading force in the formation of the new Fusion party...
...last member of the Court, who should be the least significant in point of seniority, is far from it. In 1913 in Manhattan and The Bronx, the Fusion candidate for the Supreme Court of New York was an able young lawyer named Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Early returns showed him running behind his ticket and he went to bed believing himself beaten. He awoke in the morning to find that: "My name led all the rest when the returns from The Bronx came in. Our good Italian citizens took my name for one of their...