Word: pennsylvania
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Because, said he, "I feel that the course to be followed by the Republican minority . . . during the next two years is of vital importance." Western Congressmen think neither he nor Joe Martin deserves the Leadership, since the main Republican gains of the last election were made in other States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan). Their candidate: Carl Mapes of Michigan...
Albert Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and Madison; he was also "the father of American ethnology" and originator of the world's first systematic plan of profit-sharing, introduced in his Pennsylvania glass works in 1794. His idea was so simple in theory that it became a catchword of capitalism but it is so complex in practice that few companies have tried it. Last week a Senate committee started to find out why this is so and what, if anything, should be done about it. At least it should provide a neat display of benign capitalism...
...scene was a smoke-filled dining hall; the principal characters an ex-senator from Pennsylvania and a well-known, young liberal from New York; the occasion, an election to the Party Executive Committee. Supposedly because he attempted a "mercenary alliance with the American Labor Party" the liberal, Kenneth Simpson, was defeated; in his place ex-senator Hastings, a man so conservative as to make Herbert Hoover appear
Cornell was voted almost unanimously into first place by the sports editors of the Brown Daily Herald, the Yale Daily News, the Columbia Spectator, the Daily Pennsylvanian, the CRIMSON, and the Dartmouth. Dartmouth was a close second, while Pennsylvania. Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale followed in the order given...
...Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, an off-&-on Republican, issued invitations to Republican Governor-elect James of Pennsylvania and other interested parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...