Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wreathed in smiles but distressed at heart, Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania (candidate for the Senate), Senator Joseph F. Guffey and all the principal Democratic candidates for State offices called on Franklin Roosevelt to be photographed with him for campaign purposes. They denied that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending...
Davis and Judge Arthur H. James (for Governor) capitalizing this issue, Chief Democrat Roosevelt's help was sorely needed to prevent a return of pivotal Pennsylvania to the Republican column...
When Publisher Annenberg revealed his determination to spend millions invigorating the Inquirer and make it more blatantly Republican than J. David Stern's Record was Democratic, Philadelphia's Old Dealers took hope. Soon Publisher Annenberg sat at the council tables, if not the dinner tables, of Pennsylvania's Republican aristocracy. By last week, lean, greying, 60-year-old Moe Annenberg had become the leading abomination of Pennsylvania Democrats and the central figure in three political-publishing battles...
...last week, earnings reports for August (first full month since the 25% boost took effect) made it plain that thus far the rate increase has helped the railroads as much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...
...those who like the sweet little quaverings of Bobby Breen (and it stands to reason that there are some), "Breaking the Ice" serves up a home-cooked dish with Mennonites, ice-skating extravaganzas, and eucalyptus trees in Pennsylvania. Most people will prefer Donald Duck's current...