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...final figures mounted in the East, Ike was leading by 52% in Massachusetts, took the lead for the first time in Pennsyl vania. Despite Stevenson's whopping ma jority of 162,000 in Philadelphia, Ike came back as the outstate counties re ported. One example of the Eisenhower surge : the hard-coal district of Lackawanna County (Scranton), which gave Harry Truman a plurality of 18,200 gave Ste venson an edge of only...
...Guard was losing its identity. Some units, said Walsh, had been stripped of up to 70% of their key personnel, and had endured levies "far in excess of a fair share." The Guard wanted it stopped. "Wise commanders," said Senator Ed Martin, himself a former commander of Pennsyl vania's 28th Guard Division, know that men "attain greater gallantry in battle when they fight by the side of comrades who know and understand them...
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...