Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clubs. Mr. Bingham will speak at the Harvard Clubs of six cities concerning athletics at the University. He leaves Sunday night, March 4, for Chicago, where he will talk at a luncheon on Monday. The following four days will be spent speaking at dinners in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. He will end his trip with a luncheon at Buffalo on Saturday...
...bleak, grimy hill-and-dale coal country around Pittsburgh, last week was much like the week before, and the week before that, and months before that to the tens of thousands of bituminous workers who, because their union-leaders told them to, came out of that countryside's black bowels last year and refused to work for less...
...Crescent Mine, near California, Pa., picketers jeered and swore as usual at "scab" workers (mostly Negroes) filing in for another day's work. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s strong-arm men* jostled the picketers, bade them begone. A striker fired a shotgun. Two strong-armers roared with pain. The crowd dissolved, growling with satisfaction. The week before it had been a striker's woman who was hurt?trampled by a police horse. . . . Next time the California picketers assembled they were dispersed by tear...
...Harmarville, Pa., a shipment of cast-off clothing from anthracite miners of the Scranton district brought 300 bituminous strikers stumbling through the muddy snow to scramble for pickings. Of this scene, Vice President Charles E. Lesher of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. (Mellon) said...
...puck so steadily into opponents' nets the Canadians lead the International Division by a safe margin. The only U. S. team, New York Americans, is a bad last. The rival league is led by Manhattan's other team, the New York Rangers, trailed closely by Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Chicago...