NYC Mayor-Elect Says “No Politics” in the Public Schools
New York City Mayor-elect Jimmy Walker declared on this day that he would keep partisan politics out of the city school system. “I am a partisan in politics,” he explained, “[but] I will not bring my party as a party into the Department of Education.”
The colorful Mayor Walker, whose administration finally ended in scandal, was a fierce advocate of religious toleration, speaking out against attacks on Catholics (see October 6, 1928), and also an opponent of censorship of books and movies (see March 13, 1927).
Walker is perhaps most famous for his statement that “No woman was ever ruined by a book” in May 1923.
Read about Jimmy Walker as mayor at The Bowery Boys
Watch a video about Mayor Jimmy Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuYrlf0blE
Read his biography: Gene Fowler, Beau James: The Life and Times of Jimmy Walker (1949)
Watch a video of a “Beer Parade” demanding an end to Prohibition by New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXyldRD9WcU