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...Like Cutting Your Throat." Pennsylvania's economic ailments are a ready-made issue for a challenger, and Scranton is making the most of this issue. "The other states are getting ahead of us," he stresses in speech after speech. "They're getting ahead of us in their economy; they're growing faster; they have more jobs; their people are making more money. We are going behind and drifting. And it's all because the last administration has been handled on a power-politics basis and for political purposes primarily, and not as a service...
...Scranton is plugging a ten-point "program of recovery," which ranges from new state programs for community colleges, commuter transportation and middle-income housing to "unceasing effort to improve the industrial climate of Pennsylvania to entice more industries and thus more jobs." He promises that state agencies will help "eliminate corrupt city government in Philadelphia." On the touchy patronage issue, Scranton pledges that he will push to expand civil service. With characteristic bluntness he adds: "I don't know of a single county leader in either party who shares my views on this." He maintains that he can save...
...their bloody battle, both Scranton and Dilworth tend to make each other out as the worst sort of political brigand. Yet neither is anything of the sort, and indeed they have much in common. Both have deep family roots in Pennsylvania. Both were born to wealth. Both are highly educated-and their training includes graduate degrees in the hard school of Pennsylvania politics. Finally, both Dilworth and Scranton are deeply concerned about their state's situation...
Diversify or Die. The Scrantons first came to the state in 1840, when two brothers built an iron foundry in the northeastern Wyoming Valley, turned out rails for the Erie Railroad. Their growing community became known as Scranton. The most prominent of the early Scrantons was Bill's great-grandfather, Joseph. He managed the foundry, started a spur that became the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, organized the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Co., founded a bank and headed the local gasworks and waterworks. The Scrantons grew wealthy, but not complacent. Bill's grandfather, William Walker, as early...
Bill's father, Worthington, heeded the warning, made expansion of Scranton's industrial base his life's main work. He had helped create the Scranton Industrial Development Co. with his father (who contributed $50,000) to attract new industry in 1914. After World War II he was the leading figure in developing the "Scranton Plan." Still widely copied, it is a self-help program in which a community buys or builds industrial facilities, then leases them to firms willing to move to the city. The plan eventually drew more than 50 plants and 10,000 new jobs...