Word: hylan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city: veterinary to the fire departments of Manhattan, Richmond and The Bronx. Had shrewd Dr. Doyle not divided his early years between the care of horses and the cultivation of politicians he might have been ruined when the Metropolitan fire departments were motorized. But Mayor Hylan made him Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau in 1918 at a salary of $6,000 a year. In this office he became familiar with the inner working of the Board of Standards & Appeals which grants building permits. Four years later he was pensioned off (at $2,755) "on account of eyesight...
...would become self-supporting instead of imposing its present annual tax burden of $13,500,000 on the citizenry. But most tangible factor of all is that the subway-farer would be assured forever of his nickel ride, a prime political issue in New York which re-elected Mayor Hylan in 1921, Mayor Walker...