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...ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation's No. 1 city been so thoroughly scrambled...
...Colbert, after an appendectomy, in Hollywood; William Hartman Woodin Jr., son of the Secretary of the Treasury, of a heart attack, in Tucson, Ariz.; Alberto Barreras, president of the Cuban Senate, fugitive Machadista, of abrasions suffered when an automobile belonging to New York's ex-Mayor John F. Hylan in which he was riding collided with an ambulance on Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan; Stage Actress Grace George, of a nervous breakdown, in Manhattan; Mahatma Gandhi, unconditionally released by the British Government after a seven days' fast in prison, at the Parnakuti villa of his faithful friend Lady Vitall...
...Collier has also enjoyed speeding past traffic cops in Manhattan. This he was enabled to do when John F. Hylan, then Mayor of New York, appointed him special deputy police commissioner, to launch an advertising campaign against street accidents. He invented Aunty J. Walker, a miniature policewoman with a night stick and fetching bonnet, and put her in the corner of his posters to admonish pedestrians to stop jay walking...
...called for Al Smith for Mayor. For President of the Board of Aldermen he named Socialist Norman Thomas. For New York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...
John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, one-time Mayor of New York-"The greatest sham of the age which has made all mankind its victims has been the plan of inducing foreign governments to adopt the gold standard under the pretense of stabilizing their currencies and then making them large loans at high rates of interest...