Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Junior Varsity open their season on January 16 against the 109th Field Artillery at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Six men have been retained for the team...
...Manhattan last week three Pennsylvania truck drivers were fined $25 each for bringing bootleg coal into the city. There legitimate dealers, whom 'leggers undersell by $2 per ton, have prodded police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
...what he called the "greatest conflict between moral and civil rights" in Pennsylvania's history, Governor Earle made his position clear at the outset of his tour. Virtually all anthracite miners are descendants of English, Irish. Welsh and Slavic laborers imported for the purpose since 1830. "The operators,'' said the Governor, "brought these people into the mining regions and made millions off them. Then they suddenly closed down the mines and said, 'Go make your living on thin air.' I am afraid there can be no solution until the operators recognize their moral obligations...
...Remarkable to newshawks was Mrs. Muench's child-bearing at the age of 42 after 23 years of childless married life. When Dr. Muench, who is not an obstetrician, declared he was the attending physician at the birth, the press began to investigate. Soon they found an unwed Pennsylvania servant girl whose baby had been born in St. Louis and taken from her for adoption by unknown clients at the time Mrs. Muench announced the arrival of her "gift from God." A habeas corpus proceeding was begun in the St. Louis Court of Appeals to recover the baby from...
...Artist West, Pennsylvania Quaker, was a year younger than John Copley, became the second president of Britain's Royal Academy. He was an American painter only by accident of birth, did no important work until he had left the Colonies for good, circa...