The mayor-elect, 44, is popular as a stylish clotheshorse who loves nightlife and opposes Prohibiton; he had also written a hit song, “Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?” In office, his charm and wit sustain him until corruption scandals drive him out in 1932.
In other results, A. Harry Moore, a Democrat who campaigned as a “wet” on Prohibition, is elected governor of New Jersey. Boston gets its first Republican mayor in 18 years, Malcolm Nichols, and the Klan is rebuffed with the loss of its favored mayoral candidate in Detroit.