Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...anything to watch the rich dine in their park. To point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined for eating their lunches on newspapers spread on the grass of their park. Onetime Mayor John Frances ("Red Mike") Hylan, again a candidate for that office, was quick to make use of the political potentialities of the new Casino. "A night club for the 400 in Central Park." roared he over the radio, "would never have been permitted during my administration...
...When Mike, the caretaker of Soldiers Field, inquired yesterday why the second University baseball team had been transferred to the soccer field for practice he found that the team in question was the nine that the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa is sending to New Haven to meet the Yale honor fraternity Friday afternoon...
...almost complete absence of a cohesive and well-directed Opposition. New York City Republicans are at a loss for a suitable nominee, are even ready.to fuse with independent Democrats if they have a man to offer. The only Democrat who stands forth seems to be John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, twice Mayor before Walker. Republicans were last week actually, quite seriously considering allegiance to Hylan, whose vote-following is unquestionably larger than the outstanding Republican possibility, short, swart Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia...
...Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid...