Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree successful, of getting three million dollars' worth of publicity for nothing. Mr. Slack claims his action was a "rebuke" to the Government-just how is not clear. The whole affair must be classed with the enormous but fictitious check recently sent to Mayor Hylan to pay the expenses of the Civic Jubilee. Meanwhile Slack, event if he has not made himself famous, has at least gained a temporary but universal notoriety...
...Times of London comments upon the virulent Anglophobia campaign being carried out by William Randolph Hearst and Mayor Hylan in the United States. The article is against a document by David Hirshfield, " The Mayor's Would-be Warwick" published in the Hearst press, to the effect " that there is a conspiracy in Great Britain and America to make the United States again part of the British Empire." Mr. Hirshfield points to eight histories which he describes as British propaganda, designed to belittle patriots of Revolutionary days and to show " that the American Revolution was merely a civil war between...
...States, and, to insure the complete restoration of such a government as Lincoln demanded, the people would do well to stand squarely behind the greatest exponent and champion of popular rights that has loomed upon the national horizon in the last 40 years-William Randolph Hearst." Mayor John F. Hylan of New York in the Forum. Added Mr. Hylan about Mr. Hearst: "By his battles against the so-called classes he has antagonized both the wealthy and those of high social standing, and, of course, there is no place for him in exclusive circles." "The Great Eliminator" is the title...
...gentleman named David Hirshfield was directed by the Mayor of New York City, a gentleman named Hylan, to investigate charges briefly advanced by Mr. Hirshfield, to the effect that histories in use in New York schools were pro-British. Mr Hirshfield's qualifications consisted of his office as Commissioner of Accounts of New York City and his obvious 100% Americanism. He had the further inestimable advantage of not being an historian. And he knew how to read...
...long-heralded arrival of the Thirty Club of London, an association of British advertising men, occurred with all appropriate ceremonies. Mayor Hylan presented them with the freedom of New York, tactfully pointing out, however, that his city was larger and much better adminis-istered than London...