Word: allentown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked six days a week, ten hours a day for wages of 57?, 98?, $1.25 and $2.50. Also they told of "week end trips to New York with their bosses" which, it was understood, were compulsory on pain of losing their jobs. Leaving Northampton. Mrs. Pinchot sped to nearby Allentown where a similar strike was in progress at the Morris Freezer shirt factory. Again Picket Pinchot. waving her hat to encourage her followers, led a band round & round the plant. The walls did not fall but Morris Freezer appeared, invited Mrs. Pinchot inside to meet some of the girls still...
...aviator, who had dashed directly to the gallery, helped capture the young man from behind. Representatives sneaked sheepishly back to the floor from the cloakrooms. The teller vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made no mention of the interruption. The youth told police he was Marlin Kemmerer, 25, of Allentown, Pa. where he works in the sporting goods department of a Sears, Roebuck store. His friends described him as an expert marksman. Before hospitalizing him for mental observation, police found two sticks of dynamite in his rooming house, a ten-page speech in his pocket. Said he: "You need...
Died. Col. Edward M. Young, 67, banker, president of Lehigh Portland Cement Co., ofttime delegate to Republican national conventions; of heart disease; in Allentown...
...Alleghenies he is thankful. One night last week Pilot Leigh R. Murphy of United Air Lines, flying mail & passengers between Newark and Cleveland, found what he called record visibility for the route. At one time he could see eleven beacons, spaced ten miles apart. At 6,000 ft. above Allentown, Pa., he reported he could see simultaneously the glare from the lights of Philadelphia, Trenton and New York, 100 mi. away...
Elected. Lawrence Henry Rupp, Allentown (Pa.) lawyer; to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; at the Elks' 66th annual convention in Atlantic City...