Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neighboring column we find that Mayor Hylan has been likened to a saint. At an assembly of widows and orphans in the City Hall the medical adviser of the Board of Child Welfare said: "We all know that St. John the Baptist was red-headed, and now we have another red-headed St. John St. John Hylan." When we read that this is the first of many assemblies of a similar kind that are to be held all over the city, we cannot help being reminded that the election of the next mayor of New York is to be this...
...college, student's ambition is not alone confined to making money; he must make it in a "respectable" profession. Politics is a "dirty" game; therefore he will not enter it. Quite true: it is a "dirty" game, as Messrs. Hylan, Tufts and Pelletier are most conclusively proving. But carefully sidestepping politics will not improve it, nor will it give Socialists and I. W. W.'s any less ground for accusation and discontent. The profession of education is carefully avoided for its unremunerasive nature; the deplorable result of this is obvious...