(8 of 8)
pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom
LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant
major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly
cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican
momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had
already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's
redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a
Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would.
