Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once aroused, there is no more potent politician than the Better Element. It lifts politics right out of Politics. But then, successful, the Better Element forgets. Last week, Seattle reached the turning point of the same sort of Better Element cycle by which New York got a Hylan after a Mitchell, Chicago a Thompson after a Dever, and by which Detroit will inevitably get a question mark after its Lindberghian granduncle, Mayor John C. Lodge...
...John F. Hylan, famed for what he did not accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...Hylan is still falsely accused of having said: "You said a mouthful, Queen...
...salary schedules were hurried off to Albany for filing and took effect with the new year-not before they had been denounced by former Mayor Hylan and by President Stewart Browne, of the United Real Estate Owners' Association. "An injustice to real educational leaders, a robbery of the public schools," said Mr. Browne, irate. Former Mayor Hylan complained that the lower paid teachers were unfairly treated...
...entire Connolly regime. Since President Connolly is a Democrat, the Republican Legislature of New York yearned to conduct this inquiry. In Manhattan, Mayor James J. Walker yearned to conduct the inquiry because President Connolly had opposed Mayor Walker's election, being a political brother of famed John F. Hylan, Mayor Walker's old-style predecessor...