Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temporary all-Negro high school. The galleries were packed with "race people" who came to hear their viewpoint at last expressed without hindrance, by three Negro Councilmen. The Council has 15 members, and in the absence of three white members, the three Negroes were sufficient to block the passage of the $15,000 temporary appropriation, which required a two-thirds council vote...
...laboratory will consist of two buildings, the larger facing on Oxford Street, and the smaller occupying the rest of the block behind it. These buildings will be connected by an underground passage covered by a one story corridor. Work on building A, the main structure facing on Oxford Street, has progressed to the second, and in some places third floor, while the walls of building B have as yet risen only to the first floor...
...Chicago grain operator, was known to be one heavy buyer of the stock. But last week it was learned that he had bought only 35,000 common shares. The "misunderstanding" in Philadelphia revealed that the Fisher brothers had taken up more than 100,000 common shares and a smaller block of preferred. This holding clearly entitled them to representaton on the directorate though it did not constitute control. President Vauclain chose to be cryptic about the apparent fight "misunderstanding" and apparent fight for Baldwin control. "I know of no fight," he said. "I couldn't tell you anything about...
There were seven local newspapers in Pittsburgh not so long ago. Soon mergers cut them to five. Last week William Randolph Hearst and Paul Block took the five down and shuffled them around, and now there are three. As result of a complicated deal, Mr. Block becomes publisher of a morning newspaper called the Post-Gazette, and Mr. Hearst of an evening print, the Sun-Telegraph. The Pittsburgh newspapers that melted into two were the Post, the Gazette-Times, the Sun and the Chronicle-Telegraph. The only other newspaper left in town is the Scripps-Howard-controlled Pittsburgh Press...
...wakes up next week to see the milkman's horse advancing down the block with a pince-nez on his nose one must not be surprised. The horse has become a four-eyed beast. The opening of the Saratoga, N. Y. Races was momentarily interrupted by Edward R. Bradley. Mr. Bradley announced (and he did not want anyone to laugh about it) that four of his horses, Barosa, Benedict's Vow, Billy Burke and Beneficient, were wearing spectacles...