Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of Addison E. Southard, Kentucky white man, as first U. S. Minister to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), was reported last month contemporaneously with a meeting in Washington of the Republican National Committee, upon which sits many a Negro. Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (outstanding U. S. Negro weekly) inveighed against "the eminent politicians of the Negro race" and commented sharply on Mr. Southard's appointment...
Eastern tribulations were increased when Stanford edged out a victory over unbeaten Pittsburgh 7-6. Fumbles preceded both touchdowns. Sixty thousand jammed the Pasadena Stadium to watch this Tournament of Roses spectacle write finish to the football season...
Last February a dozen women set out to tour the U. S. First they visited Manhattan. Then they journeyed to Boston, from there to Pittsburgh and Buffalo, from there to the West. They were a curious company. Dressed in the style of the early 19th century, they remained totally impervious to the appraising stares of approximately 750,000 persons. Some of the twelve women had their children with them; some of them carried bundles. With the stolid determination of explorers or pioneers, they pursued their way through the flat lands of the Middle West, through the northern plains, through...
...Lindbergh and Lincoln have in arousing it. He recounted his telling to the Chamber of Commerce of Columbus, Ohio, that they should import some foreigners to raise the cultural standards. In short he seems to have covered the cultural situation pretty thoroughly and found Cleveland on top and Pittsburgh at the bottom...
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