Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist Labor: for president, Edward A. Teichert, 44, a Greensburg, Pa. steelworker; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, 40, a Manhattan subway dispatcher. The party has run candidates for President since 1892, polled 45,000 votes in 1944. It advocates Marxism, opposes Wallace because he "stands for the preservation of the capitalist system...
Prohibition: for President, Claude Watson, 63, a lawyer and retired Free Methodist preacher from Los Angeles; for Vice President, Dale H. Learn, real-estate operator of East Stroudsburg, Pa. The party polled 74,758 votes...
...come to a major decision. Renouncing worldly goods (her grandfather left $10,000,000) and worldly pleasures (a Manhattan debut last winter and a two-month tour of Europe this summer), she announced that on Sept. 15 she would enter the Convent of the Holy Child, Sharon Hill, Pa., to become...
Dividends. In Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Hudson Robinson cut open a fish, found the earring she had lost two years ago at a fish hatchery. In Lancaster, Pa., Fisherman Cyrus Dietrich pulled in his line, found a five-dollar bill on his hook...
...Henry Bessemer toyed with the notion, other inventors dreamed of it; last week it became a reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...