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Died. Allan Shaw Haywood, 64, who rose from pitboy at 13 to be executive vice president and chief organizer of the C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906...
John Wilkes Booth had been the darling of the family. On Edwin fell the double burden of detesting the assassin while mourning the brother. In the one role, Edwin reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose barn had been burned down around brother John. In the other, he pleaded with the authorities...
The last entry is an engagement note: "Allow Mr. Ashmum & friend to come in at 9 a.m. tomorrow. A. Lincoln." It was an engagement the President never kept, for the note was signed at 8:30 p.m. on April 14, 1865, minutes before he left the White House for Ford...
By 1922, Lawyer Fine had hung out his shingle in Wilkes-Barre, had enlisted and gone overseas in the A.E.F., studied at Dublin's Trinity College and come home again to Republican county politics. That year, T.R.'s ally, lean, aristocratic Gifford Pinchot, decided to run for governor...
From 1922 until a few years ago, John Fine was an ally of Grundy's P.M.A. He was boss of Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre), but he did not play politics on the Grundy basis. His was a "normal" political machine devoted heart & soul to perpetuating and expanding its power...