STATES & CITIES: LaGuardia v. O'Brien v. McKee

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To assure themselves a chance to vote in their most critical Mayoral election since 1913, New Yorkers swarmed to registration places all last week. When the Board of Registry closed its books, 2,322,382 citizens had entered their names—a turnout 6% greater than the city's vote in last autumn's bloodless national revolution. The number of candidates to be voted on Nov. 7 was proportionate to the num-ber of incipient voters. In the field were 28 parties. There were nine candidates for Comptroller, ten for...

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