The two most important municipal elections of the week were in the country's two biggest cities. In New York, the solemn farce of electing a heavy-jowled old Surrogate named John Patrick O'Brien to fill out the remaining year of the Mayoral term of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, discredited and resigned, was relieved by one touch of decency. In a sense far purer than the President-elect, so many of whose votes were against Hoover rather than for Roosevelt, the hero of the entire election was Joseph ("Holy Joe") McKee, the able, honest little Bronx...
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