Word: delphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started congratulating not Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia's rabid (pro-Roosevelt & proLabor) Record, wrote a graphic, if second hand account...
...Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights (not exclusive) to manufacture Farns worth equipment, has lately started an experimental laboratory...
...boosted brakes, extra rigid bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...
Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...