Al Smith collected 200,000 signatures in a week

Evidence

When, early in 1933, a downtown Tammany club had begun circulating petitions urging him to run for mayor, it collected more than 200,000 signatures in one week before Smith issued a statement categorically refusing to make the race. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1555

Categorization

• CANDY: A vivid single-stat glimpse of how dominant a political figure Smith remained in 1933 New York.