Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...items in his survey of the history of the U. S. (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) : Retirement of General Sawyer and Ambassadors Harvey and Child; General Wood's troubles in the Philippines; the financial difficulties of Governor McCray of Indiana; the Klan in Oklahoma; the Berkeley, Cal., fire; Mayor Hylan's illness; Magnus Johnson's speeches; the arrival of Lloyd George on American soil; the application for permission to disinter the body of James Oglethorpe; the farmers' distress; the annual convention of the A. F. of L.; Governor Pinchot's speech at Washington on prohibition...
...John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " Still prostrate from a six-week illness which twice nearly proved fatal, I was conveyed from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to my Brooklyn home. Said I: 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Angelo Raggini has until recently been a clerk in the office of Mayor Hylan of New York. He has always been inclined to singing, and had achieved some small local reputation in the Italian colony. Three years ago, a voice teacher chanced to hear the youth and caught the sound of great vocal promise. Thereupon operatic ambitions arose in Raggini. He studied and made progress. But soon the time came for him to go to Italy for further training. He could not go; his relatives lacked funds...
...arisen rather than that a nation-wide blunder has been committed. Los Angeles is most hard put, proportionately, with 16% of 164,000 pupils unseated. Chicago needs desks for 12% of 400,000. In Manhattan, where the hue and cry clamors loudly enough about the ears of Mayor Hylan to make of him an almost national figure, the deficit is less than 8%. Detroit and Minneapolis are large centers lacking only 3% or so, Cleveland 2%. On the grand average, about one child in ten must join the overflow classes in basement or improvised classroom...
...Wales: "Since TIME commenced publication, 25 weeks ago, Mr. Henry Ford and I have figured in more ' Imaginary Interviews ' than any one else in the world. Not counting this issue, we have both scored nine. Pugilist Dempsey and M. Clemenceau are tied for second place with five each. Hylan, Yolanda, Siki, Alvin Owsley (National Commander of the American Legion) have four apiece...