Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Abraham Isaacs, 70, Ohio dry goods merchant & philanthropist, father of six professors and associate professors (Harvard, University of Rochester, University of Michigan, Columbia, Pittsburgh University); in Cincinnati, Ohio. Died. Henry Charles ("Carl") Ramos, 72, veteran New Orleans saloonkeeper, inventor of the famed, much-imitated Ramos gin fizz;* in New Orleans...
Robert White Lanier, Negro stowaway on PolarPilgrim Byrd's flagship, The City of New York, was the cause of an exulting editorial in the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro newspaper), which said: "Whatever goes on in the world there always seems to be a Negro there" (TIME, Sept...
...think I understand more clearly than you imagine what you mean. Not long ago I visited an exhibition of modern pictures at Pittsburgh. Almost every European nation was represented. As I looked at those pictures I felt I could see through them into the minds of the nations which had created them...
...following editorial appeared, last week, in the Pittsburgh Courier, most famed Negro newspaper...
...Angeles, where an aeronautical exposition was in full blast, the first to arrive in the class A event was Earl Rowland of Wichita, Kans., in a Cessna monoplane. Scarcely had the dust settled from his plane when Robert Drake of Pittsburgh landed to take second place. Soon thousands of eyes .searched the horizon for Class B and C fliers...