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Word: hylan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a nice, quiet lane in Central Park to be set apart for the figures of religious founders from Buddha to the Bab, and let the devotees of these masters meet in friendly disputation with the soon- to-be ex-Mayor Hylan as umpire or Comptroller Craig as alternate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Intolerance | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

Indeed, it is this peril of the ill found pen which alarms F. P. A. in his "Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PULL OF THE PRINTED PAGE | 10/15/1925 | See Source »

...from 41 countries, for the 23rd meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. They came in high ships up the harbor and debarked along the drab waterfront, some of them met by friends, many of them by Communists, AntiFascists, any expatriated faction which disrelished what they did at home. But Mayor Hylan's policemen preserved them from harm, and Mayor Hylan himself spoke to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Interparliamentary | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...York Times: "Mayor Hylan was originally a Yellow Hero created by the Yellow Press. He has openly appealed to the basest motives. But now the idol goes down together with its builder in political ruin. New York may breathe more easily this morning. It has got rid of a vulgar and debasing tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOTES: In New York City | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...York World: "It has been a dirty campaign. That is certain. But if any one thinks that Messrs. Hearst and Hylan can be fought with a cool and dignified appeal to reason he has failed to understand their power and their methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOTES: In New York City | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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