Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scranton there was a great parade. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania led it. With him were John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Federation of Labor, and other notables. It was said that 10,000 miners were in line. It was said that 100,000 people looked on They took part in unveiling a monument...
...TIME, May 12, et seq.), hammered out an anti-war doctrine. The strongly pacifist resolution (TIME, May 26) demanding that the Methodist Church dissociate itself from all war, offensive or defensive, was defeated. Pacifists led by Dr. Ray Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed to the draft of military service unless Capital and Labor were simultaneously drafted. Said Dr. Gray...
...additional names are: for Odist, Alexander Cameron Sedgwick of Stockbridge; for Treasurer, Gerald Garvey Dolphin of Scranton, Pa.; for Chorister, Addison Sylvan Simmons of Dorchester; for Poet, Charles, Hill Morgan 2nd of Worcester, and John Warren Knedler Jr. of Moscow...
...Premier Lloyd George visited Philadelphia, Scranton, returned to Manhattan and left the U. S. on board the Majestic, thus concluding his triumphal American tour of 6,000 miles, during which he spoke in 22 cities...
...Scranton, Pa. Before one of the biggest meetings that he had ad- dressed in the U. S., and to an audience composed almost entirely of Welsh people, Mr. George paid a sterling tribute to Mr. Charles M. Schwab and voiced a plea for " help, help, help." Of Mr. Schwab, Mr. George said: "He was the first man to come to our aid in organizing a more ample and efficient supply of munitions. The Kaiser offered him three times the price his great plant was worth in an effort to rob us of his support, but he stood by the Allies...