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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third time Tom Mooney passed out of San Quentin Prison last week, was ferried under guard across the bay to San Francisco, where he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing the local Preparedness Day parade in 1916, with a loss of ten lives. So often has the militant U. S. Labor movement thrust his case into court in a consistently unsuccessful effort to exonerate it and him, free him from a life sentence, that today Tom Mooney has come to think of himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers...
Statewide question put to Pennsylvanians at their local primaries last week was one close to the heart of Democratic Governor George H. Earle. Pennsylvania's 62-year-old constitution may be amended only once in five years. Impatient to let his citizens share in "the more abundant life of the Roosevelt New Deal," Governor Earle proposed to revamp the whole document at one clip. He wanted to up the State's borrowing power, shift taxes from real estate to incomes, lop off or consolidate antique political offices and divisions, lay the ground for social security legislation. First step...
There were also blocks of listed stocks, some of which were odds & ends from the Van Sweringen holdings, some of which were acquired, in their open-handed efforts to help local banks & businessmen in the early days of Depression when most of Cleveland turned to the "Vans" for ready cash. Biggest parcels were 35,000 shares of Lehigh Valley Coal, 63,000 shares of Otis Steel, 10,900 shares of Erie, 3,300 shares of Chesapeake Corp...
Since beer is a cheap, bulky commodity, most breweries depend on a local market. Pfeiffer, which works at top speed to brew 400,000 bbl. a year, is more typical of the industry than Anheuser-Busch, Pabst or Schlitz. Pfeiffer's president is William George Breitmeyer, nephew of the German brewmaster who founded the company. Shy and laconic at his desk but jovial away from it, Brewer Breitmeyer has a simple explanation for his own success: "I have only one hobby. I collect friends." An aid in this hobby is his stock of old German drinking songs, inherited from...
...case of local men who may become ill at home under the care of the family physician, the Hygiene Department should be notified of such illness, and when possible, a report of the illness sent in by the doctor. The staff will cooperate with family physicians in all possible ways...