Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time his rival, Governor Alfred M. Landon, is campaigning in California which has been put in the Democratic column by many observers. Landon is due to make a swing back over the entire country before election, and the President yesterday intimated that he might undertake a final tour of Pennsylvania and Ohio with a major speech in Indiana...
...explaining the rule by which he picked all WPA foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats could get supervising jobs, only 54% of 552 administrative and supervising employes are registered Democrats. Harry H. Ball, an active Republican, told friends he had been promised...
...Read sidestepped an embarrassing situation by ending her choice of pictures in the 1870's, at the birth of the German Empire. An itinerary was chosen, and last week the most important show of German art ever to reach the U. S. opened in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Museum...
First "Off the Beaten Path" tour occurred on the Pennsylvania R. R. last July when 200 railroad addicts left Philadelphia to spend a day junketing over little-used side lines, seeing little-seen countryside. The passenger list jumped to 500 for the second excursion over another route in August. Since then there have been some half dozen trips from New York, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, Ind. Last week's was the first out of Chicago, was in many ways the best...
Chosen as sponsor by the Pennsylvania was the Chicago Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society-a group of some 50 businessmen who "love locomotives," trade each other pictures of them. They and their families were joined by some 150 members of the Model Makers Guild, enough others of the general public to crowd the twelve day-coaches with 468 people, 400 of whom carried cameras. Present were railroad enthusiasts from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Each was given a mimeographed guide sheet with minute details of the route, the histories of towns, the identity of every grade-crossing...