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...deduction is fairly obvious and gives an answer. Mayor Hylan is the friend of the people, the people's choice. He lunches with the Street, hobnobs with Washington Square, nods to Fifth Avenue, and chucks the Bowery under the chin. He is a "man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome". Mayor Hylan is the soul of New York; it is his Jubilee...
When it seemed satisfactorily arranged that the Leviathan was to have a dock in Manhattan-the only unoccupied dock of sufficient length- Mayor Hylan of New York stepped in with an objection. The City of New York owns Pier 86, which the Shipping Board wanted for the Leviathan (TiME, May 5). However, in awarding the contract for the reconditioning of the President Buchanan, the Shipping Board trod on the toes of Brooklyn by awarding the contract to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company instead of to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which made the lower bid. Accordingly Mayor Hylan (who lives...
...produce their books before the Federal Grand Jury, with the implication that a Grand Jury investigation into the sugar market was projected, although aimed at individuals rather than at the Sugar Exchange. The agitation in political circles was maintained with remarkable persistence. Mrs. Harding expressed her sympathy; Mayor Hylan in a characteristic proclamation called for a "sugarless Monday," and a general campaign of sugar saving; monstrous petitions were threatened. Meanwhile the price of raw sugar futures has again exhibited strength, although refiners have followed varying policies in fixing the price on refined sugar. Thus far the agitation against sugar prices...
...doubtful whether Monday morning coffee without sugar will prove attractive for more than one week. But, whatever may be the success of Mayor Hylan's scheme, his proclamation is very significant in one respect. It marks an appeal to the consumers rather than to the government. Twenty years ago a writ of injunction, under appeal to a superior court, would have quieted the public. Now the country has lost confidence in the effectiveness of governmental regulation of monopoly and is looking rather to the action of the consumer who controls the factor of Demand. It is futile to speculate...
...sugar crop, appearing last February, put the production so far below normal that feverish speculation ensued. Denials, contradictions, and corrections only added to the confusion and at last Mr. Daugherty took up the cudgels, armed with an injunction. But the court refused to grant the injunction, and now Mr. Hylan has entered the breach, heedless of the aphorism that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In a proclamation on Saturday the Mayor declared that "the government has failed to help us. Let us help ourselves", and called "on all good citizens in their homes to observe Monday...