Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before them?Senator, Governor and Representative?examining tentatively their gifts, and holding in her hands behind her back the award of the Republican nomination to the Senate. Then, laughingly, she tossed the golden apple to Mr. Vare. All in vain was it that Secretary Mellon had gone back to Pittsburgh, crying: "Pennsylvania never had a more faithful public official nor one who has more clearly earned renomination"?Mr. Pepper polled only 485,000 votes...
...Drys claim that it was because the Dry vote was split that Mr. Vare won. But their argument is not convincing. Undoubtedly many votes in the Pittsburgh region which the Mellon organization swung to Pepper, would on a pure Wet and Dry issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted...
...Baker '01, of Pittsburgh, has put it to the Harvard men of Western Pennsylvania in part as follows...
Title distribution by colleges, Yale 9, Princeton 8, Harvard 5, Pennsylvania 5, Columbia 4, California 4, Syracuse 3, Cornell 2, Dartmouth 2, Mass. Inst. of Tech. 2, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Maine and Bowdoin, 1 each When the first I. C. A. A. A. A. meet was held in Saratoga in 1876 the athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot...