Word: purroy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This field is not named, as many people ignorantly suppose, after Col. William Mitchell. It is named after John Purroy Mitchel, onetime (1913-17) Mayor of New York, who was killed while piloting a plane in Texas...
...John Purroy Mitchel, widow of New York's late Mayor: " It was reported that in Manhattan, at the height of the gaieties of a Russian ball, a toy balloon, playfully 'touched with a lighted cigarette, exploded, set fire to my hair. Major William Kennelly threw a napkin over the blaze, extinguished it. Other guests at my table were Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, Miss Aladeleine Liebert, daughter of Gaston Liebert (French Minister in New York)." Patrick Cardinal Hayes: "My first unecclesiastical speech since returning to my archdiocese was delivered to 4,000 postal employes. To them...
...have not, as in England, a spirit of civic patriotism that draws educated and able men into politics. We have had to pay for our lack of interest by putting up with a dozen Curleys, Hylans and Thompsons for every executive of real ability like Nathan Matthews and John Purroy Mitchell. If Senator Walsh rightly interprets the sentiment of American voters, if they prefer to see college men who ought to be able to become intelligent reformers, avoid the problem, then we shall have plenty of time to keep on paying the bill for incompetency and graft...