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...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...
...cinema theatre in Monessen, Pa., three Negroes asked for seats in the orchestra. They threatened the manager, a Greek, with the law. He answered that if necessary he would close his theatre on Sept. 1. At amusement parks in several towns, when Negro couples invaded dance floors, white dancers promptly marched off. At a small hotel in Pittsburgh a Negro minister tried to arrange a banquet for 40 persons but the management was "booked up for two months...
...galloped down Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Valley warning the people of the imminent water wall, half a mile wide, 20 ft. high, hurling a spearhead of trees, houses, machinery, rocks, tangled barbed wire and human bodies toward Johnstown (dead: 2,000); after long illness; in Monessen...
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...
...Roosevelt, 21, 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...