Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old woman, born in Pennsylvania, is known now as "Citizenness Ruth Friederichovna Eterger," and apparently has abandoned hopes of ever returning to the United States to see her nine-year-old daughter or her mother and stepfather who live in Miami...
Macdonald's last bit of contact work was against the Pennsylvania Quakers in the Stadium on October 21. He was ready for a bit of action against Army last Saturday, but a bad case of indigestion postponed his return another week...
...Central Railroad of New Jersey; New York Central; New Jersey & New York; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Lehigh Valley; Pennsylvania; Reading; Erie; New York, Susquehanna & Western...
Once there was a little man in a long black coat who roamed the hard-coal fields of Pennsylvania, doing mighty deeds for the United Mine Workers of America. He was John Mitchell, and quite a boy. At 28, he was president of the union; at 32 (in 1902), he led the strike which won an eight-hour day in the coal fields. Soft-coal miners voted him out of office in 1908, eventually put John Llewellyn Lewis in John Mitchell's place. But since John Mitchell died in 1919, he rather than John Lewis has been the sainted...
Annually on John Mitchell Day the miners of Pennsylvania do homage to his memory at his marble statue in Scranton. Last week on John Mitchell Day, every miner in the State took the day off, as usual. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James, who boasts that he used to be a miner himself, celebrated the day with an incredible political blunder. He let subordinates fire John Mitchell's 46-year-old son, Richard, a $2,100-a-year clerk in the Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard...