Word: johnstown
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...returned from Hell. And if those boys who were forced into that war don't go to Heaven when they die, after living thru Hell, then I doubt very much if you the editor of TIME will ever have the pleasure of meeting Eddie McCloskey, The Mayor of Johnstown there, in Heaven...
President Hoover's return to Washington became a series of rear-platform appearances. At Fort Wayne he had come close to crying "Liar!" at Governor Roosevelt. At Johnstown, Pa. a man in the night crowd at the train's end yelled out: "We heard you at Des Moines. Give us three more like that and it'll all be over...
...Joseph E. Davies, onetime Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. President William Green of A. F. of L., Senator Copeland of New York and Washington, Merchant Julius Garfinckel came to praise the defendant's character. So did Edward ("Just Call Me Eddie") McCloskey, ex-prize-fighting Mayor of Johnstown, Pa., who offered B. E. F. mendicants a home and then had to run them out. Said Mayor McCloskey: "I didn't think the Hoover Administration was so dumb as to put on anything like this before election, with the Senator being one of their big shots. You can see from...
...Washington, B. E. F. Commander Walter W. Waters urged his followers at Johnstown to go home, after Governor Ritchie had forbidden him to establish a colony in nearby Maryland. They rebelliously talked of "sitting tight" indefinitely...
...Johnstown's alarmed citizens went the Baltimore & Ohio chief of police, direct from Mr. Willard on a mysterious mission. Mr. Willard, it was gathered, had seen President Hoover. The B. & 0. would provide trains to move the B. E. F. westward. Somehow the Federal Government would foot the bill. But no B. & O. train would be run east; in that direction on its line lay Washington. One noon a citizens committee called on Mayor McCloskey, told him of the B. & O.'s offer, induced him to use his hard-boiled political oratory...