Word: pennsylvanias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Henderson Duff, governor of Pennsylvania, is a strapping redhead with the comfortable girth of an archbishop and the piercing eyes of an evangelist. Last week, full of evangelical hellfire, Big Jim proclaimed himself the prophet of a new kind of Pennsylvania Republicanism...
...proclamation was delivered where it would do the most good, at the annual meeting of the archconservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association in Philadelphia. Ostensibly, Big Jim's theme was inflation. The best cure for it, he told the PMAsters, is a price rollback. No matter how unpleasant this medicine might be, "industry ought to set the example by taking the first dose." After all, said Big Jim, with record earnings industry can well afford the risk...
Coal & Chicks. If there was, tough old John C. Kehoe wasn't saying. Son of a coal miner, he picked slate in Pennsylvania's hard-coal country for 45^ a day. As a boy, instead of shooting marbles, he was fighting game chicks-against other kids in Pittston, Pa. He became the hard-fisted political boss of Luzerne County and owner of half a dozen coal mines, but never gave up cockfighting. The big difference between Kehoe and the 150,000 other people who fight roosters in the U.S. is that he crows about...
...Pennsylvania's floundering swimmers spiked all pre-meet rumors that they might blemish the crimson's undefeated record in the Blockhouse pool Saturday night when they succumbed to the Ulen-coached forces, 50 to 25, to become the winners ninth straight victim...
Signatories include Brown, Columbia, Cornell Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale...