July 23: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1920, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Tomorrow will be a gala day in the racing pool at Manhattan Beach baths, when the entire Olympic team selected by the A.A.U. will make their last appearance before sailing to Antwerp on Monday. There will be tryouts to select members of the 800-meter team race as well as the 400-meter team race between men and women. Miss Ethelda Bleibtrey will try to break the 220-yard world’s record.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1937, the Eagle reported, “Tammany allies of the Copeland-Prial-Levy city slate moved today to invade the Brooklyn primaries in a fight for control against the Kelly organization lineup for the Whalen-New Deal ticket. They declared the fight would not only involve the three city-wide Democratic nominations for mayor, controller and president of the City Council, but that they expect also to contest the regular Democratic organization’s choice for the borough presidency. Immediate plans were projected to launch an uprising in every district where the regular leader is committed to support Whalen for mayor, Controller Frank J. Taylor for renomination, and Max J. Schneider for head of the City Council. Similar moves were undertaken in Queens and the Bronx. Senator Copeland, in a statement over the telephone from his summer home at Suffern, N.Y., today promised a fighting campaign for the mayoralty and said he would welcome the support of as many groups as possible. Copeland was designated for mayor by a split vote of the Tammany executive committee. His statement was regarded as an open invitation to the Republican leaders to endorse his candidacy and name him as their candidate in the Republican primaries against Mayor LaGuardia.”
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