Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could see down the steep slate roof to the turgid Charles far below, wandering aimlessly between green banks and slatternly factories...
...governors were 27 out & out reformers, a complete change from the "Old Guard" whose long rule reached a climax two months ago in the Richard Whitney scandal. This revolution in the most capitalistic organization in the U. S. drew 924 members to the polls, a record. Since the reform slate was unopposed, those die-hards who wished to show disapproval had only one way to do so: by scratching names off the ballots. The man whose name was scratched most-163 times-was shock-haired Broker Paul Vincent Shields of Shields & Co. For this the reason was clear: Broker Shields...
Harding led the 1939 slate with 193 votes, and other figures were: Sullivan 168, Green 167, Burwell 148, Tobin 141, and Harbvin 139, Close to the winners were the next four men, Cleveland Amery with 136, Clarence E. Boston 133, and Edmund L. Cherbonnier and Oliver P. Bolton with 128 votes...
...last two lines will be on the left and read first, and the first two on the right and read last, and the total effect will be senseless. If it is felt that the couplets are needed to explain the murals, it might be better to wipe the slate clean and remove the murals also. At best they are glorified Liberty Bond posters. The great artist who painted them can no more have considered them representative of his best work than President Emeritus Lowell can be believed to have any special attachment for these verses of which he is joint...
Meantime the Pennsylvania Democratic machine was experiencing a split of its own. Mr. Kennedy's principal opponent for the gubernatorial nomination is the regular Democratic designee, Lawyer Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh. Running for the Senatorial nomination on the old line Democratic slate is Labor's good friend, Governor George H. Earle. Governor Earle's support of Lawyer Jones has cost him the backing of C. I. O. and Senator Joseph Guffey who are opposing him with Philadelphia's currently non-partisan mayor, Samuel Davis Wilson. Out of this confusion and uprooting of old friendships, those...