Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arctic explorers (TIME, July 13), some of his friends presented him with a joke-book before he went? 90 sheets of paper each with an alleged joke written out upon it by such folk as Governor Brewster of Maine, Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Curley of Boston, Mayor Hylan of New York, Colyumnist Don Marquis, Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, Actor Charles Winninger, Mrs. Charles Winninger (stage name: Blanche Ring), Publicist Bruce Barton, Jackie Coogan. The collection was entitled A Log of Laughter, One Laugh A Day. Provided they do not get stranded in the North, MacMillan and friends can count...
...were parades forgotten. One there was for the local police led by red-haired John F. Hylan, the city's mayor. Another, for safety, was put on by Barron G. Collier...
Declaring the Mayor's reputation, private life, and aims are "tossed about like leaves in an autumn wind," John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, attacks the interests and defends his own regime in the following special article to the Crimson on the subject of "College Men in Politics...
Lists Achievements of Hylan Regime...
...after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York, singing on the great day of her life...