Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four members of last June's graduating class have received Frederick Shel- don prize fellowships, which provide facilities for travel and further study. The men selected for 1923-24 are Marshall Ayres Best of Evanston, Illinois, Albert Harold Blatt of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Frank Walter Coyne of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Charles Edwin Teeter Jr. of Newark, New Jersey...
...list increased its budget between 1910 and 1920. In 24 cities the increase was over 100%. In Milwaukee it was 343%. The greatest average increase was made by cities of 250,000 to 500,000. The per capita expenditures for 1920 ranged from 104.9 cents (Bridgeport) to 11.9 (Scranton). One-half of the cities spent less than 43.9 cents per capita. Twenty-seven cities spent more than the average. They were: Bridgeport 104.9 Memphis...
...motor trips to Gettysburg, Scranton, Philadelphia
...Boston or Scranton, so as to arrive in New York that night
...protested that an injustice was being done them, that they yielded only out of consideration for the public. As soon as a general agreement was reached, both parties entered a joint conference to settle the miners' lesser demands. A convention of the miners was called to meet at Scranton on Sept. 17 to ratify the contract so reached...