Word: germantown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincent's Seminary and Mary's Central Shrine in Germantown, Pa., everyone bustled through preparations for this week's big celebration. Philadelphia's Cardinal Archbishop Dougherty himself was to be on hand; there would be more than a dozen bishops and scores of priests to celebrate a golden jubilee Mass in honor of the Rev. Joseph A. Skelly's 50th year as a priest and the 35th anniversary of the organization he founded. Only one man looked forward to the occasion "with much unpleasantness." Brushing the cigar ashes off his black suit, spry, 76-year...
Died. Joseph Hampton Moore, 86, twice mayor of Philadelphia (1920-23, 1932-35), eight times a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives; after long illness; in Germantown...
...with $2 and sufficient brass could have a go at him. In a really busy session, Sammy estimates that he trots 15 to 20 miles to make an average of 20 to 60 moves on each board. He likes to knock off 40 at a time, although recently at Germantown, Pa. he faced 75 in one evening...