Word: philadephia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book contains, as the front cover says, "32 pages of remarkable photographs." They are very good ones. The first shows LBJ addressing the UN (A man for all nations). The next shows him with a bunch of farmers in Tennessee (President of all the people). Then in a Philadephia ghetto (President of blacks, too). Then at Howard University (scholar). Then delivering his State of the Union message (upholder of the finest traditions of democracy). Then standing alone in the Cabinet room, seen from the back, silhouetted against the Rose Garden (the awesome responsibilities of office...
...will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some 100,000 trolleys and 45,000 miles of track to take them out to the ball game or off to the amusement park, or even to tea dances at Philadephia's Bellevue-Stratford...
...Stump the Snoopers. Star witness was Insurance Man Don Reynolds, 48, an old business buddy of Baker's. He testified that in 1959 Baker arranged an insurance kickback from Philadephia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, 71, former Democratic National Committee treasurer and Ambassador to Ireland under John F. Kennedy, who was then angling for the contract to build Washington's $20 million municipal stadium. McCloskey, said Reynolds, made the payoff by handing over $35,000 more than he had to on the premium on a performance bond for stadium construction...