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Dr. Copeland did not become a New Yorker until 1908 when he was 40. At that time he was an eye & ear doctor and he got a job with New York Flower Hospital Medical College. Soon he began to have Democratic leanings and was on good terms with Hearst for...
No sooner had he undertaken the mayor's race for Tammany than Dr. Copeland made an unusual announcement. He would likewise enter the Republican primary and welcome nomination on the Republican ticket. The reason for this was obvious: he runs altogether too serious a risk of being beaten in...
The Immaculate Politician. The Democratic leaders of New York City's outlying boroughs chose as their candidate one of the most distinguished looking gentlemen in New York City, Grover Aloysius Whalen. His father was Mike Whalen, an Irish contractor who never got very far in the world, but who...
About the time Tammany decided that Hylan was becoming the butt of too many municipal jokes and replaced him with the sophisticated Jimmy Walker, Grover Whalen retired. His friend Rodman Wanamaker, who knew that besides looking the apotheosis of a floorwalker Grover Whalen had real executive ability, made him general...
But Grover Whalen and Jimmy Walker, models of sartorial perfection though both were, had little in common. Whalen was an ambitious man but he had none of the Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have...