Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap down a document on the inaugural stand, announce: "I herewith submit my resignation as a judge of the Superior Court. . . ." By waiting until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE Honoring His True Friend GOV. ARTHUR H. JAMES...
...enough, but in its time We, the People has been hoaxed roundly, mostly before Young & Rubican now the producers, set up their elaborate checking system. Scooty was a Scotti dog, wrote a lady from Elgin, Ill., which she had come upon accompanying a tin cripple named Tim, hobbling toward Philadelphia to stay with a hardhearted aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back if only Scooty...
...soon bitten by the insurance bug. Said he: "Rarely do we have a conjunction of something so economically and socially sound and so mathematically perfect." He became a salesman ten years ago when he was made manager of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. home office agency in Philadelphia, wrote as much as $3,000,000 worth of policies in one year. Last week when President William Kingsley moved up to the chairmanship, 52-year-old Vice President Stevenson succeeded...
Meanwhile, two smart Philadelphia Jewish boys named Harry and Maxwell Kunin had rolled out to Chicago in a Pullman and gone into the grocery trade. With their father they opened a small store, branched into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with...
...Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...