Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TUCKER DEAN Ardmore, Pa...
Good shot: Powell arriving back at his home town of Habersville. Pa. after his recovery from amnesia. When his mother-in-law, whom he fails to recognize, rushes to embrace him in front of the crowd at the station, he points to Miss Loy, whispers confidentially: "Ixnay! The wife...
...Washington with out a nick. Last year he wagered 3-to-2 with General Edwin Martin Watson, military aide to the President, that F. D. R. would not be renominated. "Pa" Watson collected three fresh $100 Cudahy bills, waved them over his head...
...Publisher Knox set to work to advance the Navy's deadlines, by last week had done nobly. In negotiation were arrangements to reopen the abandoned, rotting Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia (which turned out many a World War I emergency vessel). Lined up were other private yards at Chester, Pa., Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Beaumont, Tex., Tampa, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., Oakland, Calif., Wilmington, Del. In collaboration with Labor's Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox announced a plan to round up unemployed artisans in the interior, transport them to the coasts. Some of the sand was taken...
...that conscription was camouflage to conceal the Third Term issue. Dr. C. F. Aked (D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.), of Los Angeles, telegraphed: "I thank God for your noble fight against . . death dealing systems of continental Europe where conscription means both syphilis and slavery." Banker John M. Johnston Jr. of Wayne, Pa. objected to having the normal course of his life interrupted. Said Burt Wheeler, duly impressed: "Democrats who vote for [conscription] before the coming election . . . will be driving nails in their coffins...