June 15: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1906, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Charles [Evans] Hughes will sail for Europe within ten days for his summer vacation. He will return to New York some time between August 15 and September 1. Mr. Hughes will necessarily take no part in the early campaign of the Republican party to find a candidate for governor. It is reported that B.B. Odell, Jr., who had been urging the availability of Mr. Hughes for the Republican nomination for governor, has abandoned the idea, and that the name of Mr. Hughes is no longer being considered. One of the leading politicians of the Republican party in Brooklyn, when asked today if the report that Hughes was out of the race for the gubernatorial nomination, said: ‘That is nonsense. To my way of thinking there is no one man in either party who has so good a chance for nomination as Charles E. Hughes. A brief consideration of the situation will convince you that I am right. [William Randolph] Hearst is, of course, the dominant feature of the political muddle as it exists today. The Democrats are in a way under Hearst’s thumb. Before the wiser leaders take any action, they will wait to see what Hearst will do. If they have to do so they will swallow Hearst, hook, line and sinker, and will try to recover their party health by post-election negotiations. They know that two-thirds of the Democratic voters want a radical and they know that Hearst has got himself into a position where he stands for radicalism.’”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1943, the Eagle reported, “‘I suggest that the OPA take all its books, volumes, records, reams and the hundreds of rules and regulations and use them as fuel in the coal shortage,’ Mayor LaGuardia today told delegates gathered in the Hotel New Yorker for the two-day convention of the Dairymen’s League Co-operative Association. He urged that a new set of rules, ‘concise, simple and sensible,’ be written so as not to exceed one page in length and in such a way that retailers can understand and apply them. The entire program of food production, handling, transportation, wholesaling, retailing and price fixing in three places should be handled by ‘one streamlined agency’’ that would carry on the combined tasks of the Food Administration, OPA, ODT and other agencies, so that the right hand would know what the left hand is doing, the mayor said. ‘And above all,’ said the mayor, ‘keep the politicians out of the food picture. Where do they come in to be wedges between the producer and the consumer?’”
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.