Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their itinerary in this country includes visits to industrial plants around New York City, to the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, to the Ford and General Motors plants at Detroit, to the steel mills at Pittsburgh and Gary and to the electric plants at Niagara...
...will be in the Hasty Pudding Club on April 14, which is graduates' night. On April 15 and 16 public performances will be given at the Club The schedule for the western trip follows: April 17, North Hampton; April 19, Buffalo; April 20, Detroit; April 21, Cleveland; April 22, Pittsburgh; April 23. New York; April 26, 27, and 28, Boston at the Hollis Street Theatre...
...years ago, he went partners with one L. C. Noble, into the firm of Heinz & Noble, to bottle vegetables for the market. This firm grew, changed names, moved to Pittsburgh, expanded. In 1888, at 44 Henry John retired for a season. He had done some traveling, wanted to do more, eventually had seen the continents. From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after...
...years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...
...world's middleweight boxing title last week entered the Madison Square Garden prize ring wreathed invisibly about the swart, truculent brows of Champion Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, where it had rested since an August evening in 1923. It left the ring cocked deliriously askew on the black, tight-wooled pate of gold-toothed "Bengal Tiger" Flowers of Brunswick, Ga., onetime psalm-singer. Fight-followers lamented one of the most unpugilistic championship bouts ever held. Greb, reported to be "sodded with night life," had hedged and hesitated, held, butted, thumbed Tiger's eyeballs. Greb had won most of the 15 rounds...