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...president, ruddy and reserved Gwilym Alexander Price, 50, works almost as smoothly. A poor boy in Canonsburg, Pa., he clerked in a Pittsburgh law office to earn his way through the University of Pittsburgh law school. Then he went to work in 1923 as a trust officer for the Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. Steadily, quietly, he rose to the presidency...
...twins ran identical races last week to pace the University of Michigan to the Western Conference track championship - its seventh in ten years. In a meet at Champaign, Ill., Ross and Bob Hume of Canonsburg, Pa. finished in a deliberate dead heat with clasped hands to share the outdoor mile crown. They are now co-holders of two titles, having split the indoor mile in the same way last winter...
...until he had squeezed out most of the progressive young rank&filers. Of late, however, old Mike Tighe has spent more&more time brooding by his fireside, leaving direction of the union to artful Secretary-Treasurer Louis ("Shorty") Leonard. Last month delegates to Amalgamated's annual Convention at Canonsburg, Pa. made quite clear their disrespect for Tighe's leadership by voting 2-to-1 for industrial unionism, but reserved control of the organization drive by ignoring President Lewis' cash offer. Vainly hoping to settle the question without offending either side, a committee of Amalgamated officials last week...
...year-old was given a week in which to reconsider his scruples. When a teacher snapped, "Why don't you salute the flag?" frightened Alma Hering of Secaucus, N. J., mumbled, "It's contrary to my religion." was quickly expelled together with her sister Vivian. In Canonsburg, Pa. an irate teacher lost her job when she lectured the school board: "If you weren't so dumb, you would do a little investigating and become Witnesses yourself." Same day four Canonsburg teachers faced charges of whipping four recalcitrant young Witnesses. Meanwhile: Dr. John A. Spargo, onetime Socialist...
...second assignment of Price Greenleaf Aid, the committee on scholarships and other aids to undergraduates has voted awards to 17 Freshmen and unclassified students, making a total of $2,425. The list of students to whom aid was granted is as follows: Karl Allen Blaustein uC, of Canonsburg, Pa., $100; Benjamin Albert Botkin '20, of Dorchester, $125; Aaron Ceppos uC, of Washington, D. C., $125; Julius Davidson uC, of Weehawken, N. J., $200; Abraham Green '20, of Brooklyn, N. Y., $200; Arthur Oscar Greenberg, of Jamaica Plain, $125; Warren Francis Manning '20, of Portland, Me., $200; Simon Norman...