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Such earnest digging has also borne fruit in CHNS local stories. Matthews filed an item for papers in Pennsylvania revealing that a reporter for the Scranton Tribune also earned $5,000 a year as a "public relations assistant" to Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Mc-Dade. The Tribune accepted its employee's moonlighting calmly, but McDade sniped that the CHNS disclosure was "the worst story I've seen in ten years...
...some of which presumably provoked the Guardsmen's rifle fire; 23 of them were eventually cleared. None of the Guardsmen or their officers were ever legally charged with violations, though their conduct was sharply criticized by FBI investigations and a presidential commission headed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. Former Attorney General John Mitchell supported the commission's conclusion that the rifle fire was "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable." But he shelved the matter-unresolved questions, unanswered accusations and all-by refusing to convene a federal grand jury that might have got to the bottom of it. Mitchell claimed...
Midas Touch. Balanchine did go to the United States, though. The first Balanchine-Kirstein company, the American Ballet, went broke while on tour in Scranton, Pa., in 1935. Thanks partly to some fast lobbying by Kirstein, the troupe was taken on as the ballet wing of the Metropolitan Opera. Three years later the company dissolved as Balanchine went off to Hollywood to choreograph such films as The Goldwyn Follies and On Your Toes, and Kirstein enlisted in the U.S. Army...
...photographs, the book convincingly dispels initial claims by Guardsmen that their lives were endangered by an onrushing mob of students, that they were encircled and had run out of tear gas, and that they had come under fire from an unknown sniper. Davies, along with the President's Scranton commission, the FBI and every journalist who has written a Kent State book, presents contrary evidence on all these points. At the time that the Guardsmen suddenly wheeled and fired from a vantage point atop a hill, they had already dispersed the crowd and had a clear exit route back...
...Nixon sent an American called [William] Scranton [former Governor of Pennsylvania]. He made a report when he returned to America that America should adopt an even-handed attitude and should not side with Israel. The result was that Scranton's report and Scranton himself were buried...