Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 15 years Mr. Widener has been administrator of Philadelphia's Wil-stach Fund, income from which must be used to buy paintings for the city's Pennsylvania Museum of Art. With the seven-year accrual of $160,000 in his drawing account and his usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener...
...stick, Father Balaban made a point of circulating in his parish to collect contributions for the church, often turned up at night in Serbian haunts, where he smoked and drank as heartily as anyone. A onetime coal miner in Indiana, ordained a priest after attending a Russian seminary in Pennsylvania, Father Balaban had gone to St. Louis in 1918, remained for ten years, returned at the congregation's begging in 1934, after a sojourn in Manhattan. Holy Trinity paid its priest $100 a month, which seemed to be enough since, save for his drinks of an evening...
...American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child...
...they were at this time a year ago, mat enthusiasts expect no new innovations in wrestling technique but hall with delight the "Harkness Special" which appeared for the first time yesterday. According to Johnson, number one match with M.I.T. will be a "walkaway" with chances for victories over Pennsylvania and Yale still decidedly in the balance...
...Last week Air Conditioning Manufacturers' Association announced that the entire industry's sales for the first nine months this year were $74,000,000 compared with $38,900,000 last year. Last July, after pondering his cramped quarters in five scattered plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Willis Carrier decided to move. Last week it was announced that Carrier Corp. had just completed a remarkable migration to Syracuse, N. Y., there to settle appropriately enough in the abandoned plant of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., longtime maker of air-cooled automobiles. When Franklin closed down...