MAYOR OF NEW YORK
MR. LA GUARDIA RE-ELECTED. TAMMANY'S POWER BROKEN. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Mr. F. H. La Guardia has been re-elected Mayor of New York with a plurality indicated to be 300,000. Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, who won an international reputation by his successful prosecution of racketeering methods, has been elected New York County District-Attorney with a plurality of probably 100,000. It was one of the most bitter city elections in recent history, marking the most serious defeat of Tammany since the inception of the .so-called Fusion Party, led by Mr. La Guardia, which was victorious in all the important municipal offices. Observers believe Tammany’s power is either permanently destroyed or will survive only as a minor organisation, controlling only small offices in the borough of Manhattan,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 7
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