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...long-heralded arrival of the Thirty Club of London, an association of British advertising men, occurred with all appropriate ceremonies. Mayor Hylan presented them with the freedom of New York, tactfully pointing out, however, that his city was larger and much better adminis-istered than London...
When Commissioner of Accounts Hirshfield urged Mayor Hylan to ban eight history textbooks from the public schools of New York City, he was acting only as would any citizen of his parts. At the order of the Mayor he had made himself an authority on American History by a year and a half's study of school children's textbooks. Next he held five public hearings at which two out of twenty-four persons defended the books in question. Mr. Hirshfield then investigated the activities of countless questionable organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Rhodes Scholarship Association, where each...
With such evidence before him, Commissioner Hirshfield could present Mayor Hylan with but one conclusion. There was, the former maintained, a "money super-power" which, although located in America, sought an extension of British trade, to this end it took up its stand behind all writers who were trying to bring England and America together. In order to accomplish this purpose, he argued, the propagandists tried to make the American people sorry that they had revolted, and thus to bring back this country into the British Empire. It was therefore necessary, Mr. Hirshfield explained, for them to alter the popular...
...School History of the United States" by Professor A. B. Hart '80 was among the books condemned by David Hirshfield, Commissioner of Accounts of New York City, yesterday in the report he made to Mayor Hylan. The objection was made on the ground that the history was anti-American and pro-British propaganda and should therefore be barred from the public schools of New York...
...John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " The public has been sandbagged and blackjacked both ways, coming and going, by the railroads." . . . The Government would con-duct the roads with some regard for the health and comfort of the public...