Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched her, she is back again giving U. S. concerts. Already she has sung in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Scranton. Last week, for the first time in five years, she gave a Manhattan recital...
...worry last week. The parent company has bank loans of $21,900,000 while National Electric is $27,700,000 in debt to the banks. The parent company has a $10,000,000 note issue soon falling due which it cannot meet except with stock or new notes. Its Scranton Railway Co. has a $2,100,000 bond maturity. Next year the System as a whole has $19,368,000 worth of maturities to meet, in 1934 the figure is $16,341,000 while in 1935 there will be $12,922,000 falling due. Although Mr. Insull has denied...
...Frank, Chicago, Illinois, J Frost, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, G. J. Gebauer, Tucson, Arizona, C. C. George, Washington, D. C., S. L. Guterman, Scranton, Pennsylvania, J. C. Hall, Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, W. L. Hansberry, Washington, D. C. F. H. Harriman, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, T. J. Hawkins, Westbord, Ont. Canada, B. F. Hazen, Cambridge, R. W. Hidy, Cambridge, E. Higginbothom, Millbury, M. B. Howell, New York City, Noyenen Huang, Canton, China, K. D. Hutchinson, Greenwood, J. Irving, Cupar Fife, Scotland, G. S. Jackson, Portland, Maine, R. T. Kimberlin, Danville, Indiana, Son Kuan Ko. Hunan, China, A. Korb, Dorchester, D. H. Leiffer, Los Angeles...
Married, Marion Margery Scranton, direct descendant of the founders of Scranton, Pa., daughter of Worthington Scranton, onetime president of Scranton Gas & Water Co.; and one Edward Mayer, of Manhattan; in Scranton...
...then, says Dr. Nock, "there does not exist a university or an undergraduate college, in the traditional and proper sense, anywhere in the country. ... No such thing [as an education] is possible in any American institution with which I am acquainted." Author- Professor Nock, born 59 years ago in Scranton, Pa., is a tall, rosy-cheeked pundit who has gotten out a biography of Thomas Jefferson and a definitive edition (with Catherine Rose Wilson) of Rabelais. He edited The Freeman, later contributed a column in its successor The New Freeman. During the War he was secretary to Minister to Belgium...