Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Virginia, striking soft-coal miners roamed the countryside in automobile caravans to make sure the mines stayed closed. In Glenridge, Ill., 145 miners showed up briefly but did not even change into work clothes. A few Pennsylvania hard-coal miners turned up at tipples, chatted awhile and then headed back home; most of the 80,000 anthracite miners were also out on a sympathy strike. Nearly everywhere the U.S. digs its coal, mining operations creaked to an almost complete standstill...
...Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in a jet fighter plane five months ago, Candidate Coffey was barely able to hold her own among the miners and factory workers of heavily industrial Cambria County. Hustling Republican Saylor picked up enough support elsewhere in the traditionally Republican 26th to pile up an 8,500 vote majority...
...blue-and-white sound truck, trailing behind it the jumble of static and jazz music, rolled along the narrow roads of western Pennsylvania last week into the town the maps call Brush Valley, and the 500 residents call Mechanicsburg. As it stopped before the general store, a dozen children gawked at its placarded sides: "Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. for Congress. Brave Mother of a Brave...
...believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district-Indiana, Armstrong and Cambria counties. She was campaigning to fill the unexpired term of her son. Colonel Robert Lewis Coffey Jr., World War II fighter pilot, killed last April in a jet-plane crash...
...Scintilla. When he had stated his repentance for every item of the statement, Carl Vinson thought it was about time for the committee to take a formal stand on the evidence to date. By unanimous agreement (including the vote of Pennsylvania's discomfited James Van Zandt, who had reported the anonymous charges on the House floor), the committee agreed that there was not "one iota, not one scintilla, of evidence . . . that would support charges or insinuations [of] collusion, fraud, corruption, influence or favoritism...