Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh, the "Strip," the "Hill" and the "Soho" districts have never been pink-tea political neighborhoods. But it was a long time since they had crackled with electioneering gunshots as they did last week. Cars piled with ward heelers, toughs, thugs and rowdy touts plunged through the streets emitting angry pistol potshots. Detectives and police added to the confusion by kicking, clubbing, threatening with gas bombs and riot guns. When gunsmoke cleared, it was found that two innocent bystanders, aged 24 and 9, had been killed "by mistake" and several other persons wounded while the citizens of Pittsburgh were electing...
...Hughes. After a week in Washington, President Coolidge had apparently convinced others of "those that know him" that only a now invisible emergency would make him contemplate candidacy. Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, for example, went on record as being quite convinced. Despatches from Pittsburgh said that W. L. Mellon, the Secretary's nephew and Republican State Chairman of Pennsylvania, had revealed a boom, with the Secretary at its centre, for Charles Evans Hughes, with whom Secretary Mellon lately crossed the Atlantic. Both the Messrs. Mellon quickly denied that there was any Mellonized boom for anyone at this juncture...
Thwarted thus far has been Leonor F. Loree's project of a fifth system in the same region (Wabash, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Western Maryland...
...sixth project was developed but recently by Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland, who mines coal in the Pittsburgh region. He controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...