Charles Craig Quotes
Will you please hit that little wop over the head with the gavel!
The New York City comptroller was outraged by the new president of the Board of Alderman, former congressman Fiorello La Guardia, who later became mayor of New York. The two men clashed constantly, especially at meetings of the New York City Board of Estimate, where the comptroller made an unusual request of the chairman:
Charles L. Craig, New York City Comptroller, Request made to Mayor John F. Hylan at Board of Estimate meeting, 1920
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One of the mocking eulogies the nationalists and fascists used when burying alive their enemies.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
McNickle claimed to have quoted her in an article and she did not say it and she was angry that he had put words in her mouth. Most political spouses would just suffer in silence, and if they did respond would do so in very polite and in the case of women “ladylike: terms. Ms. Kerry however was not only a very successful business woman but also was one of the richest women in America who had been in the tussles of male battles before
