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...after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York, singing on the great day of her life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WILD GEESE CHASE | 3/24/1925 | See Source »

Third Game. Mayor Hylan cast the first ball in his city. Whereupon the Giants beat that and several other balls about and out of their Polo Grounds, until they had enervated three Senator pitchers. Manager Bucky Harris had the misfortune to drop a ball just as he was about to function as pivot man in a deft double play. Score: New York 6, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World's Series | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

WHAT PRICE GLORY-Mayor Hylan and the U. S. Army entered a public conspiracy to throttle the best play of the fall. Hylan snorts at the swear words; the Army dislikes the frankly severe portrait of 'Marines at home in the trenches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 13, 1924 | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...wrote Mayor Hylan of New York City to his Commissioner of Licenses in regard to unnamed plays. But it was soon learned that one play was What Price Glory? (reviewed in TIME, Sept. 15), a war play; and the objections to the play were contained in a naval intelligence report signed by two navy officers. Extracts from the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: A Short View | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...Manhattan, where last year there was a seat shortage affecting 14% of the school population, this year there were reported to be no ac commodations for 28% of the children of school age and this in spite of a score of new buildings. Little excuse for Mayor Hylan and his School Board was found by critics in the fact that Manhattan has a shifting population. Five years ago, the excuse, legitimate enough, was that the Government's wartime embargo on schoolhouse construction had just been lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Room | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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