Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deimlo Awel o galfaria fryn* So sang Secretary of Labor James John Davis one night last week over the radio from Washington. It was an old, old hymn which his mother Esther used to sing to him as a little boy in Wales, whence he emigrated to Pittsburgh 48 years ago. Grym y groes (The Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary of Labor sang in Welsh for two reasons: i) The song had never been translated into English; 2) at Sharon, Pa., before his radio set sat David James Davis...
...From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; from Chicago came Pattersons of the Tribune. From the first Miss Charlotte managed to keep her girls well scattered geographically, taking only the cream of the applicants from Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington and the South...
...Members of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters were affronted at their convention in Pittsburgh last week when Manhattan's Dr. James F. Cooper urged them to "have children by choice, not by chance." fMrs. Sanger, Chairman of the Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, was busy at Columbus, Ohio, last week, arguing for permissive Ohio laws, at least for the canceling of inhibitive laws...
...confusion and disorder of the season, three teams have emerged unscathed, victorious in every game of a hard schedule. They are Notre Dame, Purdue, and Pittsburgh, two Indiana institutions and one from western Pennsylvania. The consistent power which has characterized the play of all three teams throughout the fall has placed them in a football aristocracy all their own. Other elevens have had near-perfect records and some have won all their contests, but none has been so convincing in victory, so steadily capable as this trio, the "Big Three" of 1929 football. To mention the names...
Octavius ("Toby") Uansa, a back born in Germany and brought up in Pittsburgh, played the first 14 minutes against Carnegie Tech. When he sat down for a rest the score was 21 to 0. When he trotted to the showers at the end of the game...