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Word: mechanicsburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue-and-white sound truck, trailing behind it the jumble of static and jazz music, rolled along the narrow roads of western Pennsylvania last week into the town the maps call Brush Valley, and the 500 residents call Mechanicsburg. As it stopped before the general store, a dozen children gawked at its placarded sides: "Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. for Congress. Brave Mother of a Brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Matter of Heroes | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...local county prosecutor whose reelection Boettiger is fighting. His paper alleged that the prosecutor failed to report $12,000 of his income on his tax returns. Wellington Koo Jr., 21-year-old son of the Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was held (briefly) in Mechanicsburg, Pa., as a suspected Jap spy. Prince and Princess Guido Pignatelli's 32-room mansion near Charleston was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage: $400,000. She is the former Henrietta Hartford, A. & P. heiress. Shrewd, brilliantly blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett declared that the boy she had legally adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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