Word: donora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote a different story. In smoky Pittsburgh, Democratic Mayor Cornelius D. Scully polled 122,400 votes to the 92,800 for Robert N. Waddell, onetime Carnegie Tech football coach. S. W. O. C. mayors and burgesses were swept into office in the historic steel towns of Ambridge, Brackenridge, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Monessen, Rankin. Even in Aliquippa, where Tom Girdler made his name as a Jones & Loughlin executive and where until four years ago there were only eight registered Democrats, the S. W. O. C. candidate, George L. Kiefer, defeated Republican Mayor Morgan H. Sohn...
...later Gulf Oil) was founded-40% Mellon owned to begin with-more as time went on. In the midst of these busy times, Andrew Mellon, aged 45, finally married. His wife was Nora McMullen, daughter of a Dublin distiller, whom Mellon met while she was visiting in Pittsburgh. Donora, Union Steel's new works, was named after the bride and W. H. Donner, Union Steel's president (first father-in-law of Elliott Roosevelt). Considering the other projects which Andrew Mellon had afoot in those years her later complaint that he devoted too much time to business...
Another U. S. steel constituent was Union Steel-bought for $25,000,000 from the Mellons, the late Henry Clay Frick and Mr. Donner. Mr. Donner was Union Steel's president. Donora, Pa., which he helped found, is named after him. He also helped found Monessen...
...second son of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, partner in Kelly, Nason & Roosevelt, Manhattan advertising firm (he entered business in 1929, instead of entering Princeton University); and Elizabeth Browning Donner, 20, daughter of Wil. Ham Henry Donner, board chairman of Pennsylvania Steel Co., founder of the towns of Monessen and Donora, Pa. and of Donner Steel Co.; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Present were Governor & Mrs. Roosevelt, many a socialite, and the groom's three brothers...
...authorized the Pittsburgh & West Virginia to build a six-mile extension into the Donora, Pa., steel district. The extension was granted over the loud protests of the Pennsylvania, once the great and good friend of the tiny P. & W. Va., changed by the threat of territorial competition into its determined enemy...