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Jimmy Walker, Mayor of New York (1881-1946)

Jimmy Walker, Mayor of New York (1881-1946) James John Walker, often known as Jimmy Walker and colloquially as Beau James, was the mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932. During a corruption scandal he was forced to resign.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

        — in 1928