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Word: spavins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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Horse Doctor. William Francis Doyle was graduated from the New York American Veterinary College in 1889. For 19 years he tended the ring bone and spavin of Brooklyn carriage horses, got in with the politically right people. In 1909 he was given the best horse doctor's job in the city: veterinary to the fire departments of Manhattan, Richmond and The Bronx. Had shrewd Dr. Doyle not divided his early years between the care of horses and the cultivation of politicians he might have been ruined when the Metropolitan fire departments were motorized. But Mayor Hylan made him Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Indian in the Woodpile | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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