Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important political event in the U. S. since the election of Nov. 3 took place last week at a private luncheon and caucus of 24 of Pennsylvania's 27 Democratic Congressmen in Washington's Hotel Mayflower. Host was Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Newshawks hovering about the doors of the suite waited for someone to break the news of what had happened. First to emerge was Representative J. Burrwood Daly of Philadelphia. He cut questioners short...
...issue at stake was which way Pennsylvania, apparently the pivotal delegation, should vote for the next Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives. Since the Majority Leader always can claim to be the next Speaker, and since Speaker William Bankhead is not a well man, the Leadership of the next Congress is doubly important to the man who gets it and to the Administration...
...years ago. when Speaker Henry Rainey died, Vice President Garner quietly pushed Mr. Rayburn forward for the job of Speaker. He lost because Senator Guffey, then as now big cheese in Pennsylvania, canvassed his House delegation, announced they would vote solidly for Joe Byrns. Thereafter Mr. Rayburn withdrew from the contest. This year matters are different. Sam Rayburn is better known, partly because he is head of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee (he has no other committee assignments) and as such fathered the utility holding company (death sentence) bill. Doing so won him the approval of Franklin Roosevelt...
Because they believe it impious to sign contracts, thriftless to accept charity, the hardworking, straight-laced Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania firmly flouted the late AAA. Farming Mennonites voluntarily reduced acreage in accordance with the Act's spirit but put their names to nothing accepted no benefits (TIME, March 18, 1935). In Lancaster, Pa. last week the Mennonite Board of Missions revealed that the new Social Security Act is equally incompatible with the sect's tenets. The Board wrote the Philadelphia office of the Social Security Board declaring that, although Mennonites will gladly pay the taxes the law demands...
...answer to an assembly call by Clarence Cook Little, Lieutenant Colonel of the U. S. Army Specialist Reserves and director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, who is now zealously organizing a Women's Field Army against Cancer, squads of Pennsylvania women trooped to Philadelphia last week to be told that cancer is curable if detected early, to be urged to spread this word to other women. While these women were busy being told how to avoid death from cancer, Dr. Grace Medes, 49, of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute wondered whether the strange...