My Last Fifty Years an autobiographical history of inside New York by Henry Klein candidate for Mayor in 1933

The New York City mayoral election of 1933 took place on November 7, 1933 in New York City Incumbent Democratic Mayor John P. O'Brien, who was elected in a special election after the resignation of Mayor Jimmy Walker, faced Republican Congressman and 1929 mayoral candidate Fiorello La Guardia, and former acting mayor and President of the New York City Board of Aldermen Joseph V. McKee, who became acting mayor after Walker's resignation until the special election, and ran on the Recovery Party line.Incumbent Democratic Mayor Jimmy Walker, who was a member of Tammany Hall, won reelection in the 1929 election against Republican nominee Fiorello La Guardia. Walker resigned on September 1, 1932, following investigations into corruption by the Hofstadter Committee under the leadership of Samuel Seabury. John P. O'Brien, another Tammany backed candidate, was elected to succeed Walker in the 1932 special election.[3]There were 2,324,389 registered voters in New York City in 1933, with 435,966 of them being Republicans. The Republican Party won New York City at the presidential level 3 times from the 1896 to 1924 presidential elections, but Herbert Hoover failed to win it in the 1928 and 1932 presidential elections.City Fusion and Republican nominationsSeabury, whose investigations led to the resignation of Mayor Walker,declined to be a candidate for mayor as he felt that he would be accused of conducting the investigation for political ambition and instead gave his support to La Guardia after unsuccessfully attempting to have Nathan Straus Jr. enter the election. Joseph V. McKee resigned from the New York City Board of Aldermen on May 4, 1933, and became the president of a bank. A draft movement sought to bring Al Smith into the election as the head of a coalition, but he declined to run on May 15. Henry Klein announced his candidacy on the Five Cent Fare ballot line on September 21 My Last Fifty Years - Front Dustwrapper Front Board Binding Strip Author's Signature [plate 1] The Author at 55 Title Page Printer's Imprint Dedication Foreword Chapter Headings / Contents 1. Boyhood and Early Career on the New York Newspapers [plate 2] Staff of The (Morning) Journal 1895 2. Klein's Weekly News 3. "Standard Oil or The People?"; Limiting Private Fortunes [plate 3] N.Y. City Hall Reporters' Baseball Team 1909 4. Frank Moss, Charles S. Whitman, Mitchel's Civil service [plate 4] Private Gathering of famous Newspaper Publishers 1901 5. Mitchel's Two Million Dollar "Slush" Fund 6. Hylan's First Term; Row with Untermyer [plate 5] The Author at 37 7. Grand Juries and Investigating Committees; Rent Profiteering; Rockefeller in the Public schools 8. Helping Cox and Roosevelt; Dynastic America; Monopolists contribute to Campaign Funds 9. First Tangible Evidence of Perjury Against Police Lieutenant; D.A.'s Payroll of criminals 10. Untermyer's Traction and Financial Connections; Rabbi Wise's Attacks; Israel Zangwill 11. Seabury and Smith Fight Hearst; League of Nations 12. "I'll Put Hylan in the Ash Can" said Al Smith 13. Exposure of the Queens Sewer Graft; Four Gunmen after Me 14. Exposure of Queens Sewer Graft, Continued 15. "Framing" Women on Vice Charges--The Hammerstein Case 16. My Campaign for Mayor of New York City in 1933 [plate 6] Display Card for NYC Mayor Campaign 1933 Rear Dustwrapper https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Henry\_H.\_Klein Exposer of the Queens Sewer Graft, Candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1933. Author of: "Politics, Government and The Public Utilities in New York" (1933); "America Use Your Head" (1932); "Sacrificed—The Story of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker" (1927); "Dynastic America and Those Who Own It" (1921); "Bankrupting a Great City—The Story of New York" (1915); "Standard Oil or The People?" (1914). "The Issue Still Is The People Against the Money Gang" - p.435. "The trouble with the City of New York and with every other large city in the United States is, that it has been plundered almost to its financial death by the Money Gang that controls all utilities and private monopolies, and by a wasteful and overloaded political system; but all waste and graft due to the political systems in all large cities, during the past fifty years, is not one one-thousandth part of all the plunder that has been taken from the people and the cities by the Money Crowd that pose as leading citizens, high-class industrialists and lofty financiers." -p.457