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Just before the Democratic Convention reached Manhattan, a newspaper was born into the metropolitan field. It came forth in the early hours of a sultry June afternoon, and fairly won the title of an evening paper. With Governer Al Smith, William G. McAdoo and "Red Mike" Hylan all in the same town at the moment of its birth, it was perforce born under Democratic auspices. And it was christened The New York Bulletin...
...expectations by turning into a news event. It had been preceded by a storm of protest from various sections of the metropolis and the U. S. at large, though nothing like a race riot seemed likely. At the first performance, the Provincetown Theatre group announced that Mayor Hylan had refused to sanction the appearance of black and white children in the first scene of the play, designed to show that with children there is no color line...
...John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "In a letter to the Brooklyn Teachers' Association I advocated an Alaskan-California-Canadian Rockies tour by Brooklyn teachers. Said I: 'The glint of crystalline rocks . . . the indescribable beauty . . . the splashing waterfalls, the lakes . . . and the nestling homes in the crotches of tree limbs of our feathered friends restore to the wanderer that sense of possession of the instinctive heritage of all mankind. . . 'Summer or winter, day or night The woods are an ever new delight...
William L. Ettinger is Superintendent of Schools for New York City. Mayor Hylan does not like him. His term expires in a few months. It is believed that only the "fight of his life" will get the Mayor to reappoint...
Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures in New York, was prompt to address a letter to the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, attacking the A. T. & T. Co. as a monopoly against the "common people" in the approved Hylan manner. His letter has opened up again the whole question as to the future status of the control of radio broadcasting, and whether it shall or not be allowed to drift into exclusive control...