Vox Vulgi

Just before the Democratic Convention reached Manhattan, a newspaper was born into the metropolitan field. It came forth in the early hours of a sultry June afternoon, and fairly won the title of an evening paper. With Governer Al Smith, William G. McAdoo and "Red Mike" Hylan all in the same town at the moment of its birth, it was perforce born under Democratic auspices. And it was christened The New York Bulletin.

Its owner, Frederick W. Enwright, came forward to read the christening service, or rather...

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