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...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...
...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...