La Guardia or the Tiger?
How to beat Tammany's bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien in next November's elections? That is the question that has plagued every good Republican and every anti-Tammany man for months & months. Their only chance. they all knew, lay in fusion. Republican Charles Seymour Whitman, New York State's onetime Governor, backed Major General John F. O'Ryan, a political non-entity but a Democrat. Tammany's ablest foe, Democrat Samuel Seabury who drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of...
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