Word: pennsylvania
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...declared, "I am going to win in New York by more than a majority -it could be a landslide." Jackson also won about three-fourths of the vote at caucuses back home in Washington last week. He expects to do well in primaries in the big industrial states, particularly Pennsylvania (April 27), Michigan (May 18) and California (June...
...Pennsylvania Senator Hugh Scott, the minority leader who, along with six other Senators, is also retiring this year, said in his reply: "I have never known a finer man." Virtually all of the Senate would agree...
...already joined last week. The Democratic whip, West Virginian Robert C. Byrd, has expressed interest in the leadership post, and Maine's Edmund Muskie has announced that he will seek it. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey might also land the job next January, should something more important down Pennsylvania Avenue not come his way. Ironically, Humphrey was the man whom the modest Mansfield had proposed for the post when it became vacant...
Born in Hailey, Idaho, Oct. 30, 1885, Pound was a prodigy who at 15 entered the University of Pennsylvania "resolved that at 30 I would know more about poetry than any man living." After he was fired from an instructor's job at Wabash College when a prostitute was found in his rooms, Pound showed up in London at 23 wearing a piratical red beard, green felt trousers, pink jacket, hand-painted Japanese tie, huge sombrero, one turquoise earring, and pince...
...University of Pennsylvania, Ivy champs, upset highly touted New York University, which finished second, and took home the tradition laden "little iron man" trophy...