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...after another Republican reform regime (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's) came in, Jimmy Hines had to live on savings. In 1918 he got into the Malto-Dextrine (glucose) business as a factory supervisor and trucker for $100 a week and a percentage of profits. He arranged the sale of a 25% interest in Malto-Dextrine to Charles F. Murphy, Tammany's big boss...
...after the test, Ben Kelsey took the ship East, stopped 22 minutes at Amarillo for fuel, lost another 23 minutes at the gas pit in Dayton. When he whipped over Mitchel Field on Long Island, just as the sun was setting, he was seven hours, 45 minutes (elapsed time) out of March Field, 2,400 miles away, and only 17 minutes slower than Howard Hughes's record non-stop transcontinental flight in a racing plane...
...witness, a brunette, Senta de Wanger, appeared in a greenish-gray sport jacket, green skirt, green hat. Miss de Wanger runs a liquor store at Hempstead, N. Y., near the Air Corps' Mitchel Field, L. I. She was sought out by absentee William Lonkowski, one of the few who was portrayed as a spy capable of digging out worthwhile information. To him and his wife German-born Senta rented part of her quarters...
...Mother was bit by a snake. Father was kicked by a mule and died from it. Husben No. 1, Judge Mitchel shot to death gambling in Florida. Left me with 2 children. No. 2 husben, Harvie Brown Rumelision was froze to death from drinking, left 2 children. No. 3, Jim Henry Johnson, home, Macon. G. A. died of Bright deces, left 10 children. No. 4 husben Shaw Lewis died with stroke diging wells, left 11 children...
...Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker...