Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth in Philadelphia on July 19 of his fourth grandson (eighth grandchild) was the most memorable event of Franklin Roosevelt's sea- and easygoing week...
Last week, when Arthur Morgan testified that the committee's counsel, socialite New Dealer Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, "has informed me that I can't talk to a TVA employe who has not been arranged through him." Representative Jenkins charged into the battle. In the ensuing exchange of bellows, he asked TVA's lawyer, James Lawrence Fly: "Have you any arrangement with Mr. Biddle whereby you know everything they [the employes] tell Dr. Morgan...
...animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third-term tuna playfully leaping over Franklin Roosevelt, as he fished with a bobber for the small game of this year's election...
...Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. subsidiary extended a 20-inch natural gas pipe line originating in Kentucky to the outskirts of Coatesville. There it came to a dead end at Poor House Road, 31 miles from Lukens' plant. Philadelphia Electric Co., which holds a franchise to distribute gas in Coatesville, was reported to have wanted to charge Lukens some $100,000 annually as commission for linking it to the Columbia pipe line. After several years of political fencing, Columbia's subsidiary this year dug in for a finish fight with the State's powerful coal interests, who were...
Till his 65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...