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Word: mcgoldrick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps permanently changed the political landscape of the biggest city in the U. S. Candidate Mahoney's congratulatory telegram was sent from his headquarters at 9:15. Shortly thereafter telegrams went to the rest of the Fusion ticket, District Attorney-Elect Thomas E. Dewey, Comptroller-Elect Joseph D. McGoldrick, and Newbold Morris, elected president of the New City Council whose members were chosen by proportional representation to replace the old Tammany-controlled Board of Aldermen. All could have been dispatched much earlier. At 10:30 rooters demonstrating outside the Mayor's house were informed that the Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tiger Skin | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Leading LaGuardians on the board are Columbia University's roly-poly Professor Joseph D. McGoldrick, currently running for comptroller of the city, and ruddy, fast-talking John T. Flynn, writer and economist. Others include Author Ordway Tead, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Schlossberg. Art Critic Lewis Mumford is the one who resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: City College | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Saks Fifth Avenue made him their vice president (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Between times he darted off to Europe every summer, predicted Hitler's success six months before the event, advised New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in his 1933 Fusion Campaign, New York's Comptroller McGoldrick in 1934. He lectures to retailing classes at New York University, serves as board chairman to the University in Exile, which provides teaching posts for top-notch German refugees. He headed the group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany's Wilhelm Furtwängler was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Friends | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...summary: ARMY, 2 HARVARD, 2 Drum, g. g., Perry Jakle, r.f. r.f., Holcombe Tyler, Capt., l.f. l.f., Powell McGoldrick, r.h. r.h., Burbank Truxton, c.h. c.h., Dorman, Capt. Stegmaner, l.h. l.h., Vincent Neff, r.o. r.o., Dawson Priestley, r.i. r.i., Motley, T. Rutherford, c. c., Manheimer Major, l.i. l.i., Motley, E. Broyles, l.o. l.o., Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY TIES CADETS 2-2 IN SOCCER BATTLE | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

...debt-ridden New York City last week, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick had the painful duty of explaining how the new municipal sales tax would work: 2% on all retail sales except food, prescribed drugs, newspapers and periodicals. To be raised was some $40,000,000 which would help pay banks for advances for jobless relief. New York's sales tax was notification that the desperate city had come to the end of its tax tether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: In New York | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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