Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reelection of Mayor Hylan in New York fulfills the expected. Why New York prefers to be governed unintelligently and extravagantly, why it consents to be made by its chief magistrate ridiculous before the rest of the country, why it submits with regularity to the manipulation of such an organization as Tammany Hall, which with open cynicism turns municipal government to its material advantage, those of us who use New York merely as a place to go to get some money or to get into some devilment are naturally incapable of understanding...
...badge of the hay-stacks: that it is big enough and powerful enough and well heeled enough and enough of a wise guy to go to the devil more times than anybody else and still survive to take pride in the achievement. The slick ness and unctuousness of Mayor Hylan, one may presume, appeal to New York as so cordially representative of its own shrewdness and unmorality as to make their exaltation through him a fitting rebuke to more common sense and the weakness for decency...
When John F. Hylan first became May, or of New York City, every newspaper in the metropolis except the Hearst sheets dedicated itself to the task of discrediting the city's administration. During the last four years they have gone to every length to persuade their readers that Hylanism must be eradicated. Investigations, exposes, ridicule--every journalistic weapon was employed. And yet, on Tuesday last, Mayor Hylan was re-elected by an astonishingly large plurality...
...aggregate circulation of the ten journals which did their best to drive out Tammany far exceeds that of the Hearst papers. But it would seem, on regarding the results of the election, as if the readers of those papers had been led by them either to vote for Hylan or, at best, merely to stay away from the polls. Yet though it is almost incredible that the attacks of such dalies as the "New York Tribune" should have had so little effect, their failure is not entirely inexplicable. Aside from the fact that the Fusionists picked a not particularly strong...
Today many cities are renewing the fight for honest government over the interests of politicians. In New York, the old story is being retold--Tammany, represented by Hylan and Hearst, against the more disinterested element. In Boston it is the Good Government group, which really stands up for better government, against the doubtful Curley-Pelletier group...