Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Like Me!" The week ended on a note in which comedy was not unmixed with worry for John L. Lewis. Pennsylvania's volatile Governor George Earle, having flown to Johnstown for a surprise speech at the miners' Sunday demonstration, cried to 10,000 rain-drenched unionists: "You don't need violence when you have a man like Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, when you have a liberal Congress in Washington and a Governor like me in Pennsylvania, who respects the workers' rights!" Pledging his assistance in wringing contracts from the steel companies. Governor Earle shouted...
...Philadelphia, Rev. John Robbins Hart of midcity St. Stephen's Episcopal Church heard his secretary observe that a number of local churches were being "put in mothballs." In no time lively, curly-headed Dr. Hart, longtime unofficial chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania, was propagandizing among his colleagues for an Anti-Mothball Society. Motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Last week the Society had more than a score of participating churches, busy not only in organizing steady services but in promoting an inter-church tennis tournament, an employment agency, weekly interdenominational stunt nights. At St. Stephen's stunt...
...Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow's greatest Washington crew to an-other Poughkeepsie victory in 1926, sharing honors with Sanford, Sonju and James Matthews, who now helps Callow at the University of Pennsylvania. At graduation Al Ulbrickson was appointed freshman coach at Washington, was made head coach next year when Rusty Callow left for Penn. Ever since, Washington has always finished at least third in the varsity races at Poughkeepsie except in 1930 when their boat was rigged too low, sank before the finish...
...more than the aggregate for the previous four years combined. During the first five months of 1937 new corporate capital financing totaled $526,187,000 compared to $310,709,000 in the same period of 1936. Notable issues: by Johns-Manville, $10,000,000 in common stock; by Pennsylvania Railroad, $52,000,000 in debentures; by Burlington Mills, $3,150,000 in common stock; by Fruehauf Trailer Co., $1,500,000 in debentures; by Wilson & Co., $6,500,000 in debentures; by Inland Steel Co., $10,000,000 in bonds. June underwritings included a $75,000,000 debenture issue...
Near Boyertown, Pennsylvania's first iron forge, in 1733 an Englishman named William Bird earned two shillings sixpence daily cutting wood. By 1740 he had accumulated enough capital to set up two charcoal-fired forges of his own where Hay Creek entered the Schuylkill half-dozen miles south of Reading. From these two forges sprang the present town of Birdsboro and the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. William Bird's eldest son Mark added other forges, a rolling mill, slitting mill and what is believed to be the first U. S. nail factory. By the Revolution...