Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some who still hoped to heal the breach. Oilman Joe Pew, once a real power but now a political has-been, privately favored Bob Taft. Philadelphia's ex-City Chairman Jay Cooke had a small handful of delegates lined up for Harold Stassen. National Committeewoman Mrs. Worthington Scranton was working feverishly for unity behind U.S. Senator Edward Martin-who would be the delegation's favorite-son choice on the first ballot...
Young As You Feel. In Scranton, Pa., Florence E. Dolph, 100, celebrated her birthday, as she has been doing for the past 79 years, by taking a slide down the banister...
...studied for a year at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Mines. After his M.S. thesis, Application of Mechanical and Electrical Devices to Coal Mining in China, Chen took an even more advanced course. He signed up as a coal miner in Pittsburgh and Scranton collieries,* held a card in John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers...
Back in China in 1926, Chen had some idea of benefiting mankind by applying Scranton techniques to the coal fields of Shantung. Fate-and hsiao-had more exciting work for him. He again met Chiang Kaishek, now the general of Kuomintang armies driving against the warlords, and Chiang made Chen a political aide...
...concept of the chiin-tzu-the good man ruling by superior talents and morality-is not unknown in other times and places. When the Scranton anthracite fields were locked in the great strike of 1902, a spokesman for the operators wrote: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for-not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country. . . ." Such remnants of U.S. Confucianism, however, have gone underground...