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...when he was 40. At that time he was an eye & ear doctor and he got a job with New York Flower Hospital Medical College. Soon he began to have Democratic leanings and was on good terms with Hearst for whose newspapers he wrote popular health treatises. John F. Hylan, a Tammany mayor who was the darling of Hearst, made him city health commissioner. In 1922 when Al Smith was running for Governor, a piece of good fortune fell into the doctor's lap. Since Smith refused to have Hearst, who wanted nomination for U. S. Senator...
...that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures and holder of various other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops after the War. He soon became...
About the time Tammany decided that Hylan was becoming the butt of too many municipal jokes and replaced him with the sophisticated Jimmy Walker, Grover Whalen retired. His friend Rodman Wanamaker, who knew that besides looking the apotheosis of a floorwalker Grover Whalen had real executive ability, made him general manager of Wanamaker's Manhattan store. After only three years he was called back to the city's service. While Mayor Walker was dining out and making the wisecracks which endeared him to every Irish heart, things had gone on which put his administration in bad odor...
...from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their upkeep. New York's present Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who has pushed the free port idea for years, hopes to turn his predecessor's liability into an asset by spending some...
...make money from its investment in Stapleton Free Port. In the first year it is estimated that the port will handle 120,000 tons of goods. Wharfage and other revenues from the five piers and warehouse will run to $150,000, half again as much revenue as the Hylan piers have yielded in late years. That no eager freighters plowed past the vigilant electric eyes last week was due, according to Commissioner of Docks John McKenzie, to the fact that foreign shippers were not yet used to the idea...