Word: nissley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March the trustees of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of. Technology chose as their next president Robert Ernest Doherty, bald, able Dean of Yale's Engineering School (TIME, March 9). Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair promptly walked out of the trustees' meeting, snorted: "This fellow's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz- and they're all Communists." The Mayor's characterization needed no further refutation last week when arch-Conservative" University of Pittsburgh invited President elect Doherty to its Commencement exercises, made him an honorary LL.D. Also honored...
Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss...
...room in Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank Building last week met Board President Samuel Harden Church and his fellow trustees of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Among them were five ex-officio members: Pittsburgh's rumpus-raising Mayor William Nissley McNair; Councilman Robert Garland, who is currently under indictment in Manhattan for using the mails to defraud; Councilman Cornelius D. Scully, whose election is challenged by the Mayor; Councilman Walter R. Demmler and Councilman Charles P. Anderson. Their purpose: to elect a president of Carnegie Tech to succeed aging, ailing Dr. Thomas Stockham Baker...
Learning that U. S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis had invested $48,000 in City of Pittsburgh bonds, Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair announced he would offer to settle with Bondholder Brandeis for $24,000. Crowed the Mayor: "Justice Brandeis wrote the decision which permits a person to pay off his debts at 50% of face value, didn...
Citizens bent on refining Pittsburgh's ebullient Mayor William Nissley McNair last fortnight took him to Kaufmann's Department Store to see "Broadacre City," a scale model of a modernistic decentralized community by Radical Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Mayor McNair whistled, let fly: "It's all right but you could never put Democrats in there. What if they'd want to get drunk or visit somebody's wife? This thing is Utopia. I'll bet they even tell you how many babies to have in each house. I just sent a gang of drunks to the workhouse. Put that bunch...