Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh. Running for the Senatorial nomination on the old line Democratic slate is Labor's good friend, Governor George H. Earle. Governor Earle's support of Lawyer Jones has cost him the backing of C. I. O. and Senator Joseph Guffey who are opposing him with Philadelphia's currently non-partisan mayor, Samuel Davis Wilson. Out of this confusion and uprooting of old friendships, those who hope to benefit most are two more friends of Labor: Gifford Pinchot, Republican candidate for Governor, and "Puddler Jim" Davis who hopes to succeed himself as Pennsylvania's Republican Senator...
Died. Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to Brazilian revolutionists...
...convinced," he announced, "that one bottle became contaminated after it left Kingston." Then investigators of the U. S. Food & Drug Administration, who, fearing another sulfanilamide catastrophe (see above), had ganged up on Dr. Neal, announced that the deadly bottle had come from the Bio-chemical Research Foundation in Philadelphia, an institution financed by Chemical Industrialist Irénée du Pont and headed by Biochemist Ellice McDonald...
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