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Others who had promised to appear during the first fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace...
...nomination of his candidate Boss Curry was still boss. Nominee O'Brien, whose son rooms with Boss Curry's at Harvard Law School, has been a docile Tammany sheep for 35 years. He began as an assistant corporation counsel, was made corporation counsel in 1920 by Mayor Hylan. was promoted to the Surrogate's bench two years later. Irish Catholic, 59, easy, affable, everybody's friend, he likes cards, the theatre, golf, wears button shoes, leads an eminently respectable private life on the upper West Side. He promptly indicated his obedience to Tammany by announcing against...
...Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee refused to have the traditional Mayor's lamps placed outside the large Bronx apartment house where he lives. Still shining nightly are the lamps outside the homes of ex-Mayors James John ("Jimmy") Walker and John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan...
...Norris, able pathologist, director of Bellevue Hospital pathological laboratories, replaced the fee-grabbing coroners of the five boroughs which compose New York City. A few years later Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike'') Hylan slighted one of Dr. Norris' aides. Dr. Norris promptly mailed his resignation. Mayor Hylan tore it up. Last week Mayor McKee, more of a diplomat, accepted Dr. Norris' resignation and then persuaded him to withdraw...
...city: veterinary to the fire departments of Manhattan, Richmond and The Bronx. Had shrewd Dr. Doyle not divided his early years between the care of horses and the cultivation of politicians he might have been ruined when the Metropolitan fire departments were motorized. But Mayor Hylan made him Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau in 1918 at a salary of $6,000 a year. In this office he became familiar with the inner working of the Board of Standards & Appeals which grants building permits. Four years later he was pensioned off (at $2,755) "on account of eyesight...