Word: pocono
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education department gives them lectures on sex and marriage, shows them how to paint, takes them sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...
...Union owns a $500,000 non-profit vacation resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Hills. Some 25,000 members are enrolled in union classes, learning everything from trade union tactics to ballroom dancing. The Union goes in for sports, clubs, pageants, dramatics, music-and politics. For the Garment Workers Union is one of the twin pillars of the American Labor Party, which holds the balance of power in New York State politics. Labor Party chairman is Luigi Antonini, president of the world's biggest local, Garment Workers No. 89 with 42,000 members...
Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing Form, purchased for $100,000 the $250,000 Pocono Mountain estate of the late Philadelphia transit tycoon, Thomas Eugene Mitten, who drowned there...
...carried ice, as footballer Red Grange used to, to keep training. Instead, he goes to the woods, fishes for trout, hunts deer and bear. When he was small his mother received a Carnegie Medal for saving the life of a hunter bitten by a rattlesnake in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. One-mile Relay, The Penn team (Carr, Edwards, Steele, Healey) whirled away from all rivals, equaled in the muscle-stiffening air the 3 min. 18 sec. record made by Ted Meredith's team...
Died. William Allen Marble, 81, oldtime corset man, president of Manhattan's famed Roth & Goldschmidt Corset Co., onetime director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, twotime (1910, 1911) president-general of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; suddenly, at Mount Pocono...