Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...British House of Commons has been likened to the trunk of an elephant: It can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers...
...agree that this performance should not have been allowed. Mayor Hylan's vacillating policy in regard to forbidding its appearance and the evident lack of connection between the police department and the Mayor is highly reprehensible. But the way to stop it is not by smashing windows and throwing bricks. Instead, the machinery provided by law should be set in motion as soon as possible. One or more nights of German opera is infinitely better for the morale of the nation than such a disgraceful disturbance. If the country is to continue being run by laws rather than...
When the CRIMSON went to press this morning the election of Governor McCall in Massachusetts and Judge Hylan in New York seemed assured. In the elections in this state Governor McCall had a majority of 75,000 over the Democratic candidate. Lieutenant Governor Coolidge was also far in the lead. The results of the elections of the other state officials were still uncertain...
...York in the four cornered municipal contest for the mayorally Hylan, the Tammany candidate was in the lead and his election over Mayor Mitchel was considered positive...
...Mayor Mitchel running for Fusion, stands for unqualified patriotism, and can boast of having given New York the best administration for over a generation. Hill quit, the Socialist, possesses great mental power, but stands firmly at the head of the anti-national movement, both in theory and ideals. Hylan, a typical Tammany politician, has been proved to be in league with the pro-German activities, and has been unable to win the support of any reputable class of citizens; while Bennett is an admitted nonentity, the candidate of the Brooklyn Republicans opposed to Fusion. Such is the situation...