Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation or trial, repeated their well-worn arguments: a public trial now would drag military secrets into the open. It might shake public confidence in military leaders. Officers could not spare time from the battlefronts to appear as witnesses. Said New Dealing Representative John W. Murphy, of Dunmore, Pa. : "It seems strange and unusual . . . when we are having the greatest crisis in the history of our world, that instead of being in the chapel on our knees praying, we have men here attempting as palace guards, or desk generals...
Fred H. Sanderson Ph.D. '43, Arlington, Va., $500 David A. Wells Prize in Economics. Marcus W. Collins Ph.D. '43, Cambridge, Mass., $300 Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by a graduate student. Edwin D. Harrington, Jr. '43-4, Wynecote, Pa., $200 Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by an undergraduate; Edwin J. Jacob '47-1, Detroit, and Carl O. Tolf, Jr., Naval ROTC, Park Ridge, Ill., Coolidge Debating Prizes of $100 each. Jack M. Fein '45, East Chicago, Ind., $75 Susan A. Potter Prize in Spanish Literature. Caldwell Titcomb '47, Augusta, Me., Carl Schurz Prize for excellence in German. Peter Flanders '47, Elizabeth Wilder...
...most other Governors went home for a well-earned rest, John Bricker motored on to Brickerville, Pa., the tiny hamlet (pop. 223) founded in 1732 by Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Bricker. There, the thrifty, devout Amishmen cheered when he plumped for free enterprise...
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, about to address most of the 300-odd citizens of Brickerville, Pa., stopped short, peered into the crowd, shouted: "Henry, what are you doing here?" Beavered, 80-year-old Henry Bricker, who had come from Bradford, Ohio for the occasion, joined his second cousin on the platform...
...Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...