STATES & CITIES: La Guardia or the Tiger?

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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