Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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voters overwhelmingly nominated William Scranton, 44, an impressive freshman in the U.S. House of Representatives, who was supported both by Johnson's alliance and by the Meehan-Hamilton people...
...ease the lot of the Pulitzer juries, the entrants rarely hide behind false modesty. "It is impossible to estimate the proverbial blood, sweat and tears which went into this undertaking," said the Scranton Tribune in 1959, submitting the work of Tribune Reporter J. Harold Brislin, whose stories helped send ten union leaders to jail. "The most remarkable mission in postwar journalistic history," read the blurb on the 1956 entry of the Hearst Task Force which had gone to Russia and interviewed Khrushchev and missed the big story of the year, the downfall of Premier Georgy Malenkov. The Pulitzer Advisory Board...
...party is not ticket fixing but good government. But Meehan and Hamilton blame the G.O.P.'s weakness in Philadelphia on the loss of the patronage that escaped from Republican hands when the Democratic Party captured the governorship. The machine leaders' great hope is that Republican Candidate William Scranton will beat Democrat Dilworth in next November's gubernatorial election. Then, they argue, the city organization will have more patronage to disperse, and will be able once more to provide "service." Out of the Crossfire. Johnson and his Alliance are also rooting fervently for a Scranton victory in November...
...bitter is the rivalry between the Alliance and the old G.O.P. organization in Philadelphia that Scranton has decided to stay out of the city until after the May 15 primaries to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. After the primaries (in which the Alliance and the old machine have entered separate slates of candidates for Congress and lesser offices). Scranton will face the challenge of getting the Johnson men and the Meehan men to work together as allies. If he can pass that test of political skill, he will greatly improve his prospects of beating Dilworth in November...
Weinberg halved the payroll and chopped services, but Scranton Transit now rides in the black, and a union man says grudgingly, "That guy kept 125 jobs that might have been lost." Then he bought control of Honolulu Transit, used Honolulu Transit assets to buy Dallas Transit, and Dallas Transit money to buy control of Fifth Avenue Coach...