Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What augurs best for Mayor Walker as a candidate to succeed himself is the 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...
...average New York voter bothers himself but little as to the manner in which his city is governed. The sins of an administration fail to register, except as dollars and cents out of his pocketbook. Graft of $100,000 was lately uncovered in the County Clerk's office. No public outcry followed. A favored group, through special fire regulations, controlled the sale of tank trucks for gasoline distribution in the city. Even the charge that this monopoly had chiseled $2,500,000 from the public left the voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME...
...renomination and election of Mayor Walker would mean that the City of New York would continue to be run by Charles F. Kerrigan, his able "assistant." This onetime newsgatherer absorbs all the technicalities of municipal government, digests heavy reports, arranges backstage decisions, plants in the alert trial-lawyer mind of the Mayor the few essential facts on which to base his official acts. The Mayor's secretary, Charles Hand, another newsgatherer, serves chiefly as the Walker stage-manager for social and political events...
With academic issues above the interest and comprehension of the average New York voter, Mayor Walker will run on his "record," will win on his "popularity"-unless he decides to take up a new line of business...
Calvin Coolidge, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., started from his Northampton home last week to attend a board meeting in Manhattan. In the Northampton station he sat?and sat. No train came. Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle...