Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the air was filled with straws in the political wind, blowing in all directions. Gusty or strong, or just an off-year breeze, the wind ebbed and eddied over Ohio, California, the cities of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Although local crosscurrents were set up, the general direction was Right, the temperature generally warmer...
...Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph from National Chairman John Hamilton; Democrats did not whoop so over a minor Tammany victory in New York City, or the expected Kentucky election of Governor Keen Johnson. Said Jim Farley: "The results are entirely satisfactory from a Democratic point of view...
...Founder's Day of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, British Ambassador to the U. S. Lord Lothian-who so far has got neatly over every hurdle that might offend U. S. public opinion-proposed "unity of nations under law, with government possessed of police powers." Totalitarian imperialism must be ended, he said, and the weaknesses of democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy...
Raymond Friedman of Clayton, Missouri, and Wigglesworth Hall B-22 won the competition for advertising manager of the Freshman Red Book which started on November 2, Maxwell Kaufer of Kingston, Pennsylvania and Grays Hall 11-12 was made assistant manager...
...Freshman schedule for next season is not definitely settled, but chances are that the oarsmen will have some of their races away from Cambridge. Last year they had no trips except for the jaunt down to Red Top, and this year they may accompany the Varsity to race Pennsylvania and Navy at Philadelphia...