Mayor John F. Fitzgerald withdraws from his campaign for reelection.

Claiming poor health, Fitzgerald’s withdraws,, but only after his opponent, James Michael Curley, threatens to deliver a series of lectures, including Great Lovers from Cleopatra to Toodles, a not-so-veiled reference to Fitzgerald’s alleged relationship with a 23-year-old cigarette girl named Toodles Ryan. Curley later explains, “Politics and holiness are not always synonymous. There are times. . . when, if you wish to win an election, you must do unto others as they wish to do unto you, but you must do it first.”