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...gave up a profitable law practice some 15 years ago to become the fixture he is at Cornell. When he meets with Book & Bowl, Cornell's carousing literary society, he reads verses, funny monologs. Once a year the literary society meets as his guest, drinks a barrel of Scranton's best beer, eats Rym Berry's famed imported Bavarian pretzels...
...Ginman, Muskegon, Mich.; B. I. Lachno, Scranton, Pa.; W. S. Tallon, New Britain, Conn.; E. F. Taylor, Medford; E. A. Walker, Phila...
...power to get wealth," in their cases $154,258,455 collected from 22,609,989 church members to care for 110,000 ministers. Yet they wanted manly wisdom on the investment of that wealth. Dispenser of the wisdom was Rev. William Thomas Boult, 43, who worked two years for Scranton, Pa. investment bankers before becoming treasurer of several national Congregational organizations...
...ended six years of persistent stalking by McNaught's General Manager Charles V. McAdam. The fight with rival syndicates was bitter at the finish. Hardly was the ink dry on the contract when orders for the Smith colyum began to pour in. Among the first to buy it: Scranton Republican, Boston Globe, Louisville Herald-Post...
...county jail for a year last week went one of Scranton, Pa.'s most wealthy and politically potent citizens. He was Edmund Beson Jermyn, scion of one of those old Scranton families whose farms were found to cover coal. Now more than 60, he had respectably acquired banks, hotels, real estate. Twice (1914-18, 1926-30) he was mayor of Scranton. The citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall...