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Although they were accused of being highbrow and having a Hah-vahd accent when they faced Scranton, three members of the Debating Council had an otherwise successful Spring tour last week, in which they faced unusually large audiences between Jersey City, N. J. and Williamsburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM TOURS SOUTH ON SPRING TRIP | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...question of compulsory labor arbitration by the Federal government was verbally battled with College Misericordia in Dallas, Penn., on Tuesday; with Loyola in Baltimore on Thursday; with the University of Scranton in Scranton, Penn., on Friday, and in Saturday's radio debate with La Salle. The Harvard team was defeated on the Affirmative of arbitration by Micericordia and Scranton and won a judges' decision over Loyola while taking the Negative of the same question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM TOURS SOUTH ON SPRING TRIP | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Worthington Scranton of Scranton, whose patrician features and baronial name do not prevent her from wearing all the fantastic headgear which fashion prescribes, is in many ways symbolic of the modern Republican Party. As National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania, Mrs. Scranton last year not only listened religiously to Alf Landon on the radio, but welcomed him back to the State of his birth. Last week, along with 19 other members of the National Committee's executive committee, a very serious Mrs. Worthington Scranton was to be seen daily entering & leaving a conference room on the first floor of St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: 100 Philosophers | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week in St. Louis the committee, including New York's Old Guard Charles D. Hilles,* Illinois' Mrs. Bertha Baur, onetime National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher and the symbolic Mrs. Scranton, got down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: 100 Philosophers | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Back at home in Gaylordsville, Conn., Artist Blume settled down to paint and to train his bird dog, Sammy. In 1934 an old painting of his, South of Scranton, won first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition and Peter Blume became one of the most talked-of U. S. artists (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). South of Scranton was the result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Image of Italy | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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