1674-19 Louis (Red) Snedigar THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 22, 194'1
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SNEDIGAR CARRIES ON
ALTHOUGH the legal talent
that serves Little Tammany
so faithfully has been able to
f discover an obscure clause in the
•Miami Beach city charter that r.
• raises a doubt as to John H.
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• .; Levi's right to serve as mayor in
the next two years, the organiza-
f tion which has claimed control of •
Beach affairs for the past two
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years Is not out of the woods by
• a long shot.
Another doughty warrior has.
stepped into the
path toward the•
mayor's office. Louis F.
Snedi-
gar, one-time mayor and so far;
I undefeated for that office, has.
volunteered to enter the present
1 race, in an effort to remove from
Miami Beach a system of ma-
chine political control that has
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more of the elements of carpet-
baggery than the citizens there
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can stomach.
When to the cor-
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rupt political maneuvers of Tarn-
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many at its worst we add the
threat of violence and gang war-
fare over the spoils of political
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success, we have a condition that
' mast be truly alarming to all •
right-thinking people of Miami
Beach.'
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It is no accident that the Leo
Bornstein homicide,conducted in Snedigar was mayor of Miami
the approved methods of the Beach prior to 1930. There would
Brooklyn.gang should have prof- be none of it if he were to re-
aced the 1934 season at Miami turn to that office. Everyone
Beach. Conditions leading up to conversant with the situation at +
the time when Bornstein was Miami Beach recognizes that re_ I
on the spot cannot be continued •
moval of machine political con-
without further brutality of a trol would eliminate the breed- �}
similar nature. The only cure log ground in which thugs and
for this is removal of political in-: racketeers might otherwise hope }
to flourish. It is this threat of
fluences under whose cloak of i
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protection the gangs of Broo' yn an unhappy and a disturbing
and Chicago may soon be ra lug winter that has caused such a i
the palm-fringed street of demand for someone to carry on, I
Miami Beach with machii ;n when it became evident that
fire as they have the str: f John Levi's race and election i
. those Northern cities whey would be clogged
activities have been co: . with legal ob-
for so long. 0d stacles.
( There was none of that when,
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