Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasn't taken without experience. No light thing is it to anujhilate the famous Harvard Stadium hotdog, known for generations for its resilieney, its sturdiness, its more pounds per dollar value. Messrs. Jacobs Bros, are the owners of the concessions at Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Michigan State, and "at the Pitt-Notre Dame game we had 63,000 customers and we served 'em redhots and they went nuts about...
...huge University of Pittsburgh received from the State of Pennsylvania a much-needed subsidy of $1,188,000. Last fortnight Pitt's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman touched off a battery of liberal protests by dismissing History Professor Ralph E. Turner, longtime loud and active liberal (TIME, July 16). By last week the smoke of battle had drifted East to Harrisburg and up the nostrils of that old liberal warhorse, Governor Gifford Pinchot. Cried he: "If the Mellons want a school to teach their ideas, then let them support it. The Commonwealth cannot...
...letter to Chancellor Bowman. Governor Pinchot threatened a legislative investigation "to determine whether the University should continue to receive public funds." Also last week American Association of University Professors promised a new investigation of academic freedom at Pitt, to follow up the one it made...
Last fortnight Chancellor Bowman explained that he had dismissed Professor Turner because "I thought his position could be better filled by another man." Last week Pitt's Chancellor had changed his tune to: "Professor Turner was dismissed because of his sneering, sarcastic, flippant attitude toward religion...
...Press promptly recalled five other liberal professors who have lately walked Pitt's plank. Friends brandished an investigation by American Association of University Professors. Labor leaders promised a huge protest meeting. Led by a June graduate of Pitt named Marjorie Hanson, the League for Social Justice called for Chancellor Bowman's resignation, promised a house-to-house canvass of Pitt students. State Democratic Chairman David L. Lawrence suggested that at its next session the Legislature might well cut Pitt off its lifeline of State...