Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...
Less liberal politically than his colleague and onetime schoolmate. Chicago's George William Cardinal Mundelein, Cardinal Hayes was less conservative, less stern than the two other U. S. princes-Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell. Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty. Six months will probably elapse before the Pope, guided by the Vatican's card index of U. S. candidates, picks a new Archbishop of New York...
Ford Symphony (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS) opens its 5th Sunday Evening Hour season. Conductor: Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy. Solist: Baritone John Charles Thomas...
...intrigued by its softness, became Peter Patterer the Peatman. Richard Whitney the Broker, intrigued by peat's possibilities, once put his barnstorming cash into a Florida peat company. Most newsworthy of present peat mossers are Charles Silber, a Newark, N. J. attorney, and Giles Price Wetherill, a Philadelphia socialite.* Last week in Cherryneld. Maine, they declared their newly formed American Peat Co. ready to dig for the $16,000,000-per-year U. S. peat trade now monopolized by importers from Sweden and Germany...
Warden William ("Bill") Mills, one-time footballer for Temple University, onetime superintendent (1920-33) of Philadelphia's none too savory police force, denied all knowledge of how it could have happened. He declared he had been out for a jog in the woods the morning the bodies were found, could not have been more surprised. He shut himself up in his house and tried to wash his hands of the whole horrid affair. Two guards-Alfred Brough and Francis Smith-were held on homicide charges by the Coroner, who promised eight arrests of guards and "higher-ups" after...