Word: pennsyl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff bills...
...stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
...hours Mr. Lewis disappeared. It was learned that he had gone to an inn on the outskirts of Harrisburg, there to confir in long-night scerecy with various in henchmen. He returned, said nothing except that a strike in the Pennsyl vania counties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill would certainly be called Sept. 1 unless the operators met his terms...
...entered the Army as volunteer in the Twelfth Pennsyl vania Infantry. At the end of a three months' enlistment, he became a Captain in the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. During the war, he rose step by step to a colonelcy. Peace came. He slipped back to be a Sec ond Lieutenant and once again began his steady rise. The Spanish War gave him a sudden boost; and he rose to be a Brigadier General; then a Major General of Volunteers...