Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Kennedy, for Governor. So Senator Joe Guffey and Miner John L. Lewis formed an alliance to unseat the regular Democratic organization. Not only did Guffey-Lewis back Miner Kennedy against the organization's gubernatorial candidate, a mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle for the Senatorial nomination. To add to the confusion, Governor Earle's ousted State's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti ran for Governor...
Sportswriters listened to his claim: "I was a left-handed pitcher for the Phillies. I guess you'd call me the Hubbell of my time. We were playing the Giants in the old Philadelphia ball park on August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stuff but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with...
...Terra of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences wirelessed from Java that he had found in Java and Burma crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part...
...years these words from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...Samuel, still adamantine, died in 1929. Four years later the Samuel Memorial Committee obeyed the first provision of Mrs. Samuel's will by holding a world competition for sculpture-to be grouped in three terraces designed by Philadelphia's smartest architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction...