Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Winston H. Slaughter (Marie Wainwright), actress, 68, at Scranton, following an operation. She played the part of Josephine in the first American production of H. M. S. Pinafore (1878). She played the part of Aunt Agatha in Captain Applejack...
...attention to Yale 1898 as being the " youngest " famous class. It includes James W. Wadsworth (U. S. Senator from New York), Hiram Bingham (Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut), Henry H. Curran (U. S. Commissioner of Immigration), Julian S. Mason (Managing Editor of the New York Tribune), Gouverneur Morris (novelist), Worthington Scranton and Paym Whitney (capitalists), Brewer Edd (divine...
...Talmadge's first venture as an artist-a pen-and-ink artist-will be a series of cartoons entitled Dulcy, The Delightful Dumbbell. They are syndicated by the Key-City Feature Service and will appear in the Evansville (Ind.) Courier, the Rockwell (Okla.) Tribune, the Boston Post, the Scranton Telegram, the Sacramento Tribune, the Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix, the Morning Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.), and in other enterprising papers throughout the United Spates and Canada...
...that you remove your carcasses without the door," said John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers at the Scranton Convention of coal miners. He was addressing three "communists" who sat in the gallery...
...Scranton Convention was closing, a delegate rose and displayed a leaflet distributed by the radicals. Mr. Lewis asked to have it sent to the platform. He took it and began to speak?earnestly but not heatedly. This " scurrilous sheet," he said, was printed on good paper and in excellent style?showing no expense had been spared. The communists who circulated it at night were "industrial buzzards." William Z. Foster was behind them, working in conjunction with Soviet Russia. Among those who were spreading the propaganda were Joseph Manly (son-in-law of Foster), his wife and G. P. McCarthy...