Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City, which enjoys a good show, was having a pleasantly lively time in the mayoralty campaign. Neither greying, genial Democratic Mayor Bill O'Dwyer, nor his Republican-Liberal-Fusion challenger, Newbold Morris, could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...
...wealthy, 47-year-old Yale man who was one of Fiorello La Guardia's most active proteges and is backed by Labor's David Dubinsky. Holding the mantle of the Little Flower like a bullfighter's cape, he leaped into the arena, flapped it at the mayor-and then set hurriedly off after that well-scuffed political kigmy, Gambler Frank Costello. He implied heatedly that Costello ruled Tammany and that Tammany ruled O'Dwyer. He did not document the allegation, but for all that, it had a fine, wild ring to it, and it made lovely...
Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
...strong candidate, promising neither sweeping reforms nor offering a positive program to eliminate bossism, but he is an experienced public servant. He can probably untangle better than any of the other candidates the mess in which Curley has left the city's finances. Hynes was the acting mayor of Boston for the five months that Curley was in jail at Danbury. During that time, though he did not clean the Curley appointees out of office, he opened to the public all bidding for city contracts...
...mayors who follow Curley have a history of being overwhelmed by the task of reconstruction. In two instances, the executives that came after him left City Hall in near disgrace as Curley re-merged. With his training in municipal accounting while City Clerk and with his experience as acting mayor, Hynes has the equipment to reform the city's administration so that bossism cannot return...