Word: scrantons
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Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton is the only Republican who has succeeded in convincing anyone that he really is a presidential noncandidate. Yet last week in Washington, he convinced a few more people that he surely should be in the running...
Before attending a State Department briefing on foreign affairs, Scranton appeared before a special House committee studying President Johnson's program to eradicate poverty in the Appalachian states. Scranton was all for the idea, but he thought that some severe flaws in the Johnson program ought to be corrected...
Patches of Misery. Said Scranton to the Congressmen: "Twentythree hundred years ago, Plato described poverty as the 'parent of meanness and viciousness,' and he urged that society declare war on it. 'It would be strange indeed,' he wrote, in a state even 'tolerably ordered,' if the poverty-stricken were to be 'utterly neglected' or allowed to fall into 'utter destitution.' Long centuries later, our great nation still has what this year it has become fashionable to call pockets of poverty. Our society is shamed and weakened by their existence, whether...
Earlier this year, the Club's repeated attempts to induce Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton to accept the award failed, as the governor did not even reply to the HYRC's requests. And then this spring, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) was asked to accept the award, but she answered several weeks ago that her schedule was too full to permit a trip to Harvard...
...Salzen revealed that Scranton, Sen. Thruston Morton (R-Ky.), Rep, William E. Miller (R-N.Y.), national Republican chairman, and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke were being considered for the award along with Lodge...