Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District. He served two terms (four years) and it has been said that he did not appear in Congress more than 25 times. In 1904 he wanted the Democratic Presidential nomination and was reported to have backed his pretentions heavily with cash, but failed. In 1905 he ran for Mayor of New York City on an anti-Tammany ticket and lost by a small margin. In 1906 he took the Tammany nomination for Governor and then broke with Tammany. The Demicratic ticket was elected? all but himself. In 1907 he backed his campaign manager for sheriff ?as a Republican...
...late years he has been a consistent supporter of Mayor Hylan and, in so far, successful. But this year Tammany broke with Hylan and Mr. Hearst stayed on?and lost...
...Walker's personal character, when it has been submitted to minute analysis, is such that his opponents mark him unfit to sit in the Mayor's chair. The opinion is general that a man of Walker's strip is unthinkable for the chief magistracy of the greatest city in the world...
...Mayor Hylan has succeeded in so humiliating Walker during the comparatively short period the primary campaign has been under way that the prospect of his ever surviving another six weeks of excoriationtion is entirely remote...
...Hylan announced that he was "happy." Mr. Hearst ran his picture with that word over it. "Mayor Hylan was the victim of as brutal a bludgeoning as modern politics ever devised. Way back last winter the plans for it were laid in the inner councils of Wall Street." The Mayor let it be known after a conference with Hearst representatives that he would not run on an independent ticket in the coming election?...