Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth Lauder Kellurm , daughter of George Lauder, Pittsburgh millionaire and partner of Andrew Carnegie, came ashore at San Francisco from the Malolo to tell of a dream and its end. The dream: a perpetual honeymoon with her fisherman-guide husband on the yacht Kaimiloa, cruising in Southern seas. Medford Kellum had served all his life as a seaman, had guided the Lauders on Florida fishing trips. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Lauder, half his age; from 1920 to 1923 he made a fortune in Miami real estate; in 1924 the couple sailed in quest of eternal happiness...
...Mellon suite conferences on drafting Coolidge continued to a negative conclusion. Next day, when Secretary Mellon endorsed Hoover at the Pennsylvania caucus and Boss Vare got a resolution passed alleging his right to a seat in the Senate,f newsmen snorted abusively that the Pittsburgh patrician's course had been dictated by the Philadelphia politician, that Secretary Mellon had been timid and vacillating, that his control of Pennsylvania was a myth, that Boss Vare was Boss indeed and that Hooverism had Boss Vare to thank for its deciding boost. As added evidence of the supremacy of Vare over Mellon...
...Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Elmira...
Dillon, Read Union Trust, Pittsburgh...
Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh richman, killer of Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon...