Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania, Republicans have united behind a formidable gubernatorial candidate, Representative William Scranton, 44, to run against Philadelphia's Democratic ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, who is warring with Representative William Green, boss of the Philadelphia Democratic organization...
...hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare. I say it can't." Then Weinberg tried a whipsawing tac tic that he had previously used on balky city governments in Scranton, Pa., Dallas and Honolulu. Without higher fares, he warned. Fifth Avenue Coach would have to lay off 1,500 workers and cut down Sunday and night service. He began by sacking 29 workers, many of them old-time employees disabled on the job. In reprisal, Transport Workers Union President Michael...
...tire-recapping business, got rich by investing in Depression-era real estate. By buying low and selling high, he made a fortune after the war in depreciated bonds of the Baltimore Transit Co., saw the huge-and often overlooked-profit potentials in city transit. He bought heavily into the Scranton Transit Co., then got control as its receiver after an eight-month strike drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. Typically...
...Scranton's road to his party's nomination for Governor was as tortuous, if not as rough, as Dilworth's. Last month Scranton said that he was content to run for re-election to the House, wanting to get more experience there, would consider the governorship only if he had support from all factions of the party and if his nomination would stop the bickering. Last week he got it, after a good deal of intraparty warfare from which he personally remained aloof...
...right-leaning tradition of onetime State Chairman Joe Grundy (the inspiration for Grundyism, a byword for stiff-collared conservatism), started off by backing a political nobody: Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside, 57. Then U.S. Senator Hugh Scott jumped into the race, ready to step aside if Scranton ran, and touched off a major melee by quoting Gettysburg Republican Dwight Eisenhower as saying he would "rather see a primary fight than be forced to take a miserable ticket"-a thinly disguised blast at Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought out U.S. Representative James E. Van Zandt...