Some 1,400 elections were held in the U.S. last week. The vast majority were of small significance. But the results in some half dozen mayoralty elections again demonstrated a prime fact of contemporary U.S. political life. The fact: Democrats, with the help of union labor, have a stranglehold on most of the big city vote.
In New York, Democrat Bill O'Dwyer ran up a record plurality (685,175) over Republican Jonah Goldstein, thus giving Governor Tom Dewey a kick on his political shins. In Boston, the ineffable James Michael Curley won out over...
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