Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan for 29 years served the People. As magistrate he protected the underdog, as mayor he championed the 5¢ fare. For more than three years since his retirement as mayor, chafing under his inability to serve, he has started abortive booms for reelection. Failing in his latest he announced last week...
...EATER OF DARKNESS-Robert M. Coates-Macaulay ($2.50). "To My Father and Mother, Nick Carter . . . ex-Mayor Hylan, Gertrude Stein . . . Oleg Skrypitzine . . . Gerald Chapman, Harold Loeb, The New York Times . . . and Fantomas this book is affectionately or gratefully dedicated." Author Coates lives in Manhattan's Chelsea at the end of a disconnected telephone-wire, and it is in Chelsea that his story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals...
Simultaneously John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, Mayor Walker's voluble predecessor, now an independent candidate for reelection, put in wide circulation an envelope inscribed: "Voter-Who killed Rothstein and Marlow?" A card inside replied: "Send Hylan back to City Hall. Send Enright back to Police Headquarters. They may find...
...York voters, waiting to see what Commissioner Whalen would do, recognized the Marlow murder as an exceedingly lucky break for Nominee Hylan, who had charged that the Rothstein case would remain a mystery so long as the present administration was in power because "too many politicians . . . were involved with Rothstein in his criminal enterprises." Nominee Hylan hinted that the Marlow case would join the Rothstein case as another unsolved murder with a political tinge. Before the week was out, Commissioner Whalen had eight persons under arrest, six as material witnesses, two as oldtime criminals, caught in a "fortified" apartment...
...Nominee Hylan hopes to gain Republican support as a fusion candidate. Against his hopes looms the short, swart figure of Manhattan Republican Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, who expects the Republican mayoral nomination. By way of preparation, Congressman La Guardia last week went to the U. S. Army hospital at Hot Springs. Ark., had his tonsils removed...