Word: vania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania. Early last summer a 100% Republican committee of Pennsyl- vania's State Senate set out to investigate charges of WPA corruption in that State, was promptly halted by a Federal injunction on the grounds that no State legislative body had a right to investigate Federal activities. Republicans have lately demanded an investigation into the political aspects of Pennsylvania's relief by the U. S. Senate's Committee on Campaign Expenditures. Democrats have demanded that the Committee investigate large Pennsylvania employers charged with coercing their employes into the Republican line...
...histories of towns, the identity of every grade-crossing and switchback along the way. Route was southeast from Chicago, over trackage unused by passenger trains for years, to Logansport, Ind., then northeast to La Otto, southeast again to Fort Wayne. There the one-day railroaders went through the Pennsyl vania's divisional shops. Meanwhile the engine was changed from a double-header K-2 to a double-header K-4, fastest of steam engines. This power whipped the train back to Chicago over the mainline route of the Detroit Arrow in record time...
...their extremity, the Geological Survey officials turned to the Geological Society of America. Two years ago that body was astounded to learn that it had inherited $4,225,000. The benefactor was the late Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, scholarly brother of Pennsyl vania's late famed Republican Boss Boies Penrose...
...Senate fight. Varemen approached Senator Grundy about a Grundy-Brown ticket. Senator Grundy not only spurned this alliance but also, without consulting anybody, announced that his candidate for Governor was Samuel S. Lewis, onetime State Treasurer. Promptly, with the help of William Wallace Atterbury, President of the Pennsyl- vania R. R. and Republican National Committeeman, Boss Vare chose Secretary of Labor James John Davis as his senatorial candidate, made a Davis-Brown ticket to oppose the Grundy-Lewis ticket (TIME, March...