Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon it was ascertained that "Benny" is Lieutenant Benjamin F. Staud of Pittsburgh, who pulled the lanyard firing the first U. S. gun to send a shell spinning over Nanking. Commodore Dewey's "Gridley" was Charles Vernon Gridley of Logansport...
...Pittsburgh (Pirates) (Senators...
Such was the substance of an interview obtained last week with Singer Hayes by a correspondent of the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly). With regard to his future activities in behalf of "Angelmo," Singer Hayes was quoted as saying "What concertizing I do next season will be in regions where I have never sang...
...Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon's Mellon National Bank has more deposits ($145,414,409) than his Union Trust Co. ($128,639,172). Union Trust employes assuage their pride by realizing that their industry brings their bank vast profits. Out of these, their directors last week declared a quarterly dividend of 50%, which is of course the equivalent of 200% a year. George Fisher Baker's First National Bank in Manhattan yields but 100% dividends yearly...
...PEACHES" said black type more than an inch high, in a Pittsburgh newssheet. Frances Heenan Browning, blonde, buxom, onetime darling of the tabloids, had signed a contract to expose her nether limbs to the gaze of Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...