Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine stand of black hair, may one day be Speaker of the House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal issue to deliver only a speech. In it he demanded that the U. S. recall its Ambassador from Moscow (see p. 15). Score at week...
Annually on John Mitchell Day the miners of Pennsylvania do homage to his memory at his marble statue in Scranton. Last week on John Mitchell Day, every miner in the State took the day off, as usual. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James, who boasts that he used to be a miner himself, celebrated the day with an incredible political blunder. He let subordinates fire John Mitchell's 46-year-old son, Richard, a $2,100-a-year clerk in the Department of Property and Supplies. By nightfall, thousands of miners were petitioning for Richard...
...prepared themselves to cushion any thank-you-ma'ams along that road -a slight, stooped Pennsylvania Irishman with grey hair frizzled in a permanent wave, Pat Boland of Scranton; and a short, old-fashioned general law practitioner, perfecto-puffing Luther Alexander Johnson of Corsicana...
Lupien, in jumping from Soldiers Field to Scranton in the Class A Eastern loop, took a man sized leap, and this makes the success of his season's play all the more pleasing to his Fenway Park bosses...
...immediate future is uncertain, but there are three alternatives for him, listed according to their degree of possibility. He may advance up to Little Rock in a Class A-1 circuit; he may remain in Scranton for another year; or he may skip up to Louisville in a Class AA league. All of these clubs, of course, are owned by the parent Red Sox organization...