Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated his clothing with gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only...
...most populous with Welshmen (75,000) of any city save London. From all over the world went humming Welshmen, chiefly of course from the mine-scarred valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose the president. In Welsh he cried the ancient ritualistic question: "Is there peace?" The voices thundered: "Peace...
...Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer home Mrs. Hert was "hopeful" that the National Committee would pick Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania as her successor as No. 2 driver of the steamroller. Marion Marjorie Scranton, tall, stylish daughter-in-law of the family that founded and named Scranton, was once (in a nominating speech) called "God's greatest gift to mankind." She is attractive; she is dashing?too much so, according to conservative Pennsylvania politicians who gossiped critically about cigaret smoking and such like. But above all she is a "good politician," now stepping with cheerful speed from local to national fame...
When the 70 units competed, they met in Manhattan's Mecca Temple. There they spent the better part of a day determining that the Concordia Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was the best Class A chorus of all. Liederkranz of Scranton, near neighbors to the Wilkes-Barrians, won second prize. Class B Winners were the B. & O. Glee Club of Baltimore and Ottawa Temple Choir...
Died. Martin Maloney, So, of "Ballangarry," Spring Lake, N. J., utilities tycoon, Papal Marquis, onetime breaker-boy in Scranton's anthracite mines; when France passed laws forbidding religious orders to own property, Mr. Maloney bought nunneries and monasteries so the inhabitants could remain. He had a plan to settle the trouble between the Popes and Italy by buying a corridor of land from the Vatican to the sea. Pope Leo XIII made him a Papal Marquis, highest title ever given a U. S. layman...