Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first attack with another delivered before the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia. Next day in Washington, Secretary of Interior Ickes stepped to a microphone with a fighting speech which looked as if it had been tempered on the same anvil as Bob Jackson...
...headquarters in Detroit to handle the rapidly growing automobile accounts, became head of that office in 1925 and originated $10,000,000 worth of business (70% automotive) in 1928. That interested Mr. Lorimer in Mr. Healy. He was called to the New York office, a few months later to Philadelphia to be Curtis advertising director. Next year the Post began accepting cigaret ads, although the magazine has still to receive its proportionate share of the tobacco business-a circumstance which strengthens its resolve to continue excluding liquor advertising...
...Saturday Evening Post was not founded by Benjamin Franklin, as blazoned from the Post's headband. Franklin died in 1790. The Post began publication, as a compendium of news and literary contributions, August 4, 1821, in a little printing shop on Philadelphia's Market Street which happened to have inherited Franklin's old hand press, a few fonts of his type and the goodwill of his defunct Pennsylvania Gazette...
...third and lower class hotel, Ball discovered that a Mr. Burgess was registered from Philadelphia as a representative of a firm in Cincinnati, where the law student lives. Ball was unable to find the lodger named Burgess, showed a picture to the clerk, who said it might be the man, since he hadn't seen him with...
Three hundred years too late, a letter addressed to "Pres. John Harvard" arrived at University Hall Monday. The sender, one George W. Roans of Philadelphia, requested the gift of a pair of shoes...