Word: mitchel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditions could be improved. Last week General Foulois started out from Washington to inspect his men, bases and equipment. "I am told," he said, "that our equipment is no good. Others tell me it is the finest in the world." The General flew first to Long Island's Mitchel Field. There he quoted Air Corps mortality statistics to back up his contention that military flyers expect one of their fellows to be killed nearly every week. In fiscal 1932 there were 50 fatali ties; in fiscal 1933, 46. Last month's Army crashes increased the current year...
...with Christodora House, a "settlement" institution on Avenue B, Manhattan. From that time on he held nothing but jobs as a social worker or relief giver?with the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, largest private charity in Manhattan, with the Reform Administration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, with the Board of Child Welfare, with the Red Cross during the War, with the New York Tuberculosis & Health Association. Governor Roosevelt made him New York's Relief Administrator...
...first great crusade, the New York mayoralty election, had been an unqualified success. Fusionist LaGuardia had been swept into office by a huge majority (see p. 16). Tammany's control of the municipal government had been smashed for the first time since the World helped John Purroy Mitchel smash it 20 years...
...since the 1925 Pulitzer Races at Mitchel Field, L. I. had the East witnessed an air meet of national importance, until this week (Oct. 7 & 8) when the National Charity Air Pageant was to be held at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Sponsored by an enormous committee of socialites, the Pageant is for the benefit of Manhattan's Judson Health Center, Emergency Exchange Association, and for Junior League charities outside New York State...
...When she steps into her office, she proposes not only an accurate and non-political count of unemployment but also a nation-wide system of Federal employment agencies to bring men and work together. In 1913 Miss Perkins married Paul C. Wilson, a secretary to the late John Purroy Mitchel, New York's reform mayor. They have a 16-year-old daughter. Though no Lucy Stoner, Mrs. Wilson kept her maiden name in public so as not to embarrass her husband with her political activities. Her elderly mother always introduces her as Mrs. Wilson and as such she will...