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...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...
...retractable landing gear, found to his horror that it would not budge; the wheels remained uselessly folded into the thick low wing. Lieut. Quesada picked up the speaking-tube. Try a landing on the hard runway? Climb higher and bail out? Secretary Davison looked overside, then answered: "Neither. . . . Try Mitchel. It's softer there." At Mitchel Field a few miles away Lieut. Quesada made a "fishtail" landing at 70 m.p.h. without hurting his chief or himself...
...Augustus Lindbergh, who was to lead his squadron of Missouri National Guard observation planes, flew off to the rendezvous to inspect the weather. Like oldtime cavalry commanders who preferred their personal mounts to Army issue, he flew his own fleet Lockheed-Sirius to Ossining, reported fair flying conditions. At Mitchel Field, L. I., General Foulois gave the "Let's go!" signal. The show...