Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night Entrance. In Scranton, Pa., after being turned away from a saloon that was closed for the night, Francis J. Mann got in by ramming it twice with his car, thus demolishing 1) the front door, 2) a clutch of cuspidors, 3) half...
Bethlehem Steel Corp. was hard hit in pride and pocketbook two months ago. Then, a federal district court in Scranton annulled its 1937 purchase of the Williamsport Wire Rope Co. on the ground that a federal judge had been bribed to approve the deal (TIME, Oct. 27). Last week Bethlehem found a way to clear its name and get back Williamsport. It agreed to pay Williamsport stockholders an extra $6,000,000 for a clear title to the company (it had originally paid $3,300,000 for the business while it was in receivership). In approving the terms...
...leading by 52% in Massachusetts, took the lead for the first time in Pennsyl vania. Despite Stevenson's whopping ma jority of 162,000 in Philadelphia, Ike came back as the outstate counties re ported. One example of the Eisenhower surge : the hard-coal district of Lackawanna County (Scranton), which gave Harry Truman a plurality of 18,200 gave Ste venson an edge of only...
Last January, after taking 4,943 pages of evidence, a Special Master of Federal Court agreed with the House subcommittee; the Master recommended that the 1937 sale be annulled on grounds of fraud. Last week in Scranton, Federal Judge Albert L. Watson did just that. Said he: "Only [thus] can the court be certain that all defrauded parties will have been restored to their rights." Bethlehem, which expects to appeal, will hold the company in "constructive trusteeship" for the "rightful owners," the original stockholders...
...brother Ballard and Elmer Schuer broke out of Lewisburg, Pa.'s federal penitentiary, they stole four cars, ran through and around Pennsylvania police roadblocks, stabbed, kidnaped, looted and finally, in a Philadelphia suburb, held a family captive for 19 hours (TIME, Sept. 22). Then they headed for Scranton, took a wrong turn, came to New York instead. When they ran short of cash, they staged a three-minute raid on a Bronx bank, got $12,680. Early one morning this week, eleven days after the escape, 31 New York police, armed with tear gas, a tommy gun, service revolvers...