ROONEY reminded his colleague that the craft was being built at the Brooklyn yard because it could be done there at the "lowest possible cost to the taxpayer." He couldnt resist adding. "I doubt that under these circumstances even she can put this 60.000ton warship in her handbag and carry it up to Quincy." JOHN JAMTES ROONEY was born In 1903 in Brooklyn. . stonesthrow from the florist shop which his maternal grandfather John Fitzsimons opened in 1869. ROONEYS mother. Ellen Fitzsimons. was a product of County Leitrim. Emigrating to America in 1888. she went to work in the family flower shop In Brooklyn. ROONEYs father. James. arrived from County Sligo the same year.
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