Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburghers boarded a special train, sped to New York to study metropolitan airports, carry back ideas for Pittsburgh's new $2,000,000 landing field...
...ballots in voting machines which were lugged around to make "copy" and gain publicity. The Hearst press announced that it would do the same throughout the land. Remarked, though meaningless, in the early returns last week was a large "straw" lead recorded for Smith in that citadel of Republicanism, Pittsburgh...
...better story. First in their thoughts, foremost in their speculations, was James Augustine Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel Corp., for 35 years an expert in marketing U. S. steel abroad. In 1893, Germans recalled, it was the 30-year-old Farrell, then general manager of the Pittsburgh Wire Co., who brought his company through the panic by selling half the plant's output in foreign markets. By 1901, when the U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, Mr. Farrell was recognized as the outstanding candidate for the post of foreign sales agent. In 1903, he became head...
Died. Rody Patterson Marshall, 57, lawyer, sportsman, "poorman's attorney," estimated to have had some 20,000 clients, mostly penurious; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No client defended by him against homicide charges ever got a death sentence...
Zionists. In Pittsburgh last week met the embattled Women's Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah. Mrs. Zip Szold, Honorary Secretary, read a report commending the policy of President Irma L. Lindheim, who had criticized the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Louis Lipsky (see col. 2). Soon afterward, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. Lindheim president...