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...Juan Hill and staying up late, he worked and reworked, in longhand, his speech accepting the nomination. He conferred constantly with visiting politicos and friends -Senator Johnson of California and his manager, Charles L. Neumiller; Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Louis B. Mayer, politically ambitious cine-man; Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation; Howard Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle man; and many another. ¶ The night of the Tunney-Heeney fight, the newest of six new radio sets (sent on approval) was in operation...
...energetic promotions of Milton D. Crandall led naturally to many imitations. By the time of his most spectacular achievement last week, dance marathons were booming all over the U. S. Promoter Crandall himself intended to start others, under slightly more stringent rules, in Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball...
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Among the 64 lady delegates was to be Marion Marjorie (Mrs. Worthington) Scranton, tall; stylish daughter-in-law of the family of the founder of famed Scranton, Pa. Daughter-in-law Scranton was elected to the National Committee this spring, after narrowly escaping defeat. Because she is dashingly attractive ("God's greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John...
...bomb exploded last week near the plant of La Voce Italiana in Scranton, Pa., injured three people, wrecked nearby shops, but did not damage the newspaper's press. Police searched for a possible connection between this and the bombing on New Year's Eve of the Scranton Sun, earnest crusader against crime, smallest English daily in Scranton, published by W. H. Hallstead...