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October 16, 1937

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TAYLOR IS ACCUSED OF SOLICITING VOTES WITH PUBLIC FUNDS; Mayor and the Controller's Election Rivals Point to Letter to ERB Staff IT TELLS OF 10% PAY RISE And Stresses City Financial Head's Part in Getting It, but He Calls It 'Routine' O'RYAN OUT FOR MAHONEY Candidate Scores La Guardia on School Policy--Mayor Sees Racket in Licenses Ended Controller Taylor, Democratic candidate for re-election, was accused by Mayor La Guardia and by Joseph D. McGoldrick, Taylor's Fusion rival, and Frank Crosswaith, Socialist nominee, of using city funds to send "misleading political propaganda" to home relief employes. Taylor denied the charge, asserting the letter referred to was sent to the workers merely to inform them of a 10 per cent pay rise. [Page 1.]

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Controller Taylor and finance dir J A Corcoran accused by LaGuardia, J D McGoldrick and F Crosswaith of distributing pol propaganda in notifying employes of pay rise; Taylor replies

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Notable Births

Emile Ford

1937Emile Ford, Saint Lucia-born British singer and first Black British musician to sell over one million copies of a single (died 2016)[†]

Michael Emile Telford Miller, known professionally as Emile Ford, was a musician and singer born in Saint Lucia, British Windward Islands. He was popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the leader of Emile Ford & the Checkmates, who had a number one hit in late 1959 with "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?", which was the Christmas number one that year. He was also a pioneering sound engineer.

Notable Deaths

Jean de Brunhoff

1937Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (born 1899)[†]

Jean de Brunhoff was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was published in 1931.