Word: mitchel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparation for the five game schedule Coach Mitchel had his first complete outdoor practice yesterday and had the outfield squad out on Wednesday...
...Force -began a fortnight's play at war under the toughest conditions it could find, in winter-ridden New England. Since there was no "enemy," no "tactical problem," but merely a fight against Nature, the maneuvers themselves proved of little interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week...
...heart attack; in Queens. A farm boy from upstate New York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries, was appointed by his successor a Children's Court Justice...
...Republican ticket. Last week Brother Lewis stopped celebrating his nomination long enough to answer publicly: "Why, the only other political job Harry ever had was under a Republican Administration. That was when he was in charge of widows' pensions in the City of New York under John Purroy Mitchel. I just wanted to be in a position to give Harry...
...upstate legislator from Hyde Park who was fighting Tammany at Albany. He gave-and still gives-boating excursions up the Hudson to poor women & children. He even ventured far enough into politics to hold down a desk in New York City's Fusion campaign headquarters when John Purroy Mitchel successfully ran for mayor in 1913. But he soon discovered that he had no flair for politics. He married Helen Dinsmore Huntington-a member of another county family-and settled down to his real estate business...