Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This scene was symbolic of Kennedy's whole tour from Bethlehem--where started the day in the living room of an unemployed steelworker--to Scranton, where he pledged prompt Federal aid to prevent "young people moving out of these families being broken up, and whole communities withering away...
Kennedy reached Scranton over two hours late because of the crowds all through the outskirts...
Died. Mrs. Worthington Scranton, 76, suffragist widow of a member of Scranton's founding family and duchess of Pennsylvania politics, who was a delegate to every Republican National Convention from 1920 to 1948, a National Committeewoman for 23 years, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1936 to 1938, only woman member of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense during World War II; of a heart attack; in Dalton...