Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stoddard Eccles, New Dealing banker from Utah; Menc S. Szymczak, onetime comptroller of Chicago. The new appointees: Joseph A. Broderick. onetime New York State superintendent of banks; Ronald Ransom, executive vice president of Fulton National Bank of Atlanta; John K. McKee, onetime receiver for National banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for the last two and one half years chief examiner for RFC; Ralph W. Morrison. Texas Hydro-electric tycoon, who in 1933 was one of the U. S. delegates to the World Monetary & Economic Conference at London...
...Washington, D. C. drive on speeders police arrested big, burly President John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers on a charge of driving 42 m. p. h. in a 30-mile zone. Laborman Lewis posted a $10 bond, left town. On Pennsylvania Avenue a patrolman stopped Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, famed Washington hostess and member of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Association, charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side...
Every state in the Union is represented among the 7,663 students from the United States. Massachusetts, with 3,022 students, has the largest representation, followed by New York, with 1,314; Pennsylvania, 383; New Jersey, 307; Ohio, 266; Connecticut, 242; Illinois, 223; and California...
From the vicinity of Cape Henry, Va., 3,300 plants were sent to the Herbarium by Ludlow Griscom, research curator in Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Bayard Long, of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, and John M. Fogg of the University of Pennsylvania. Under Professor Fernald's direction the Harvard botanical staff have been collecting extensively in the Virginia coastal region for the past three summers and have obtained about 10,000 specimens...
...whom Ralph was born 45 years ago in small Hagerstown, Ind., soon saw that the boy's blindness was not going to hamper him anymore than he could possibly help. Every day he ran to & from grade school where he got splendid marks. At the University of Pennsylvania he got his B. S. without difficulty. Because he was sensitive about his affliction and hated to accept help, he learned to do almost everything for himself...