Word: shenango
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...through a bill increasing the capacity of the Pittsburgh veterans' hospital by 300 beds. Because .of his Republican regularity, he does not openly agitate his liberalized pension scheme to which the Hoover Administration is opposed. His political dream is the improvement of the Beaver, Mahoning and Shenango rivers in his section. He got the War Department to survey these streams for possible developments. His critics declare that his activity for "pork barrel" legislation helps to keep him in his House seat. Outside Congress: Fairly well-to-do, he owns a row house in Foxhall Village, a development in Georgetown...
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