Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal...
Republic claimed that during the 1937 Little Steel strike its plants in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and elsewhere had lost $2,500,000 because C. I. O. pickets ("armed mobs") had menaced employes, caused suspension of mails, obstructed railroads and highways from its plants, restrained interstate and foreign trade. Under the Clayton Act, triple indemnity plus costs is payable. It was no coincidence that Republic's suit followed by one week C. I. O.'s plea to the Labor Board for $7,500,000 in back pay for time lost by employes after their reinstatement...
...Robert H. Llewellyn, of Carlisle, Pa., Dickinson '39; Edward A. G. Luxton, of Montreal, Canada; Marshall Melin, of Chicago, Ill., now teaching at University of Chicago; Charles Meyer, of St. Louis, Mo., now graduate student at Washington University; Franklin B. Newman, of West Chester Pa., University of Pennsylvania '39; Charles E. Passage 2G, of Dansville, N. Y.; Gardner Patterson, now teaching at University of Michigan...
Under fair water conditions four Varsity boats, Cornell, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, rowed up to a flying start for a two mile race, while thunderheads were threatening overhead. At the mile rain curtained the boats as they rowed down the course, Harvard out ahead with the largest early lead of any contest this season. Syracuse was second, followed by Penn, with the Big Red trailing the fleet...
...Republican possibilities forced cancellation of a "Forward to Forty" dinner, scheduled in Washington last week. Taking note that Ohio's Senator Taft had stuck his neck out at the first such dinner TIME, May 1), Mentionables Dewey of New York, Bricker of Ohio and James of Pennsylvania declined to speak at the second...