Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts I am going out of office with the most hearty contempt not only for the morals and the intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest citizens who would otherwise destroy them...
...That is one wing of the city machine. The other consists . . . partly of such of the ostensible respectable elements of the communi- ty as are willing (in Pittsburgh, for example) to shut their eyes and make common cause with gangsters, vote thieves, dive keepers, criminals and harlots, because of the social and financial eminence of the Mellon name...
...With such words, Governor Pinchot passed out of Pennsylvania politics last week. He will be succeeded on Jan. 18 by John S. Fisher, a Republican who is less of a thorn to the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia stalwarts. It will be remembered, however, that Mr. Pinchot has passed out before. Once a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt, he quarreled with President Taft in 1910 and was ousted from the important chairmanship of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry. Years later, in 1922, he arose like a ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration...
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...every movement while sleeping. The most nervous subject stirred once every eight minutes. The most inert, once every 25 minutes. The average: 13 minutes between stirs. Purpose of the experiment: to discover the efficiency of beds, springs, mattresses, pillows.?H. M. Johnson and G. 'E. Weigand, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh...