Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaving the convention, Mr. Davis stopped at Pittsburgh to visit his parents, to tell them how he almost became a candidate for Vice President. With a lump in her throat, Mother Davis said to Father Davis: "David, if you had only been willing to come to America when I wanted you to, we would have had a Vice President in the family...
...began to happen to him in this town of 1,500 souls: 1) He became wealthy: his pay at the tin mill was good; he saved money; he backed his good and enterprising friends in activities from oil speculation to running newspapers; later he became an investment banker in Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before, but Mr. Davis was an inspired Moose. Believing that "a boy who knows how to build concrete houses will not have to sleep in haystacks," he was the founding spirit of Mooseheart-famed...
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania is a champion for his state-more exactly, he is the most outspoken and vigorous champion for that potent coterie of Mellon-Reed-Pepper, which has its politico business headquarters in Pittsburgh. A member of this group and a good friend of Senator Reed is Cyrus E. Woods,* who was recently nominated for the Interstate Commerce Commission by , President Coolidge. Senator Reed was busily bestirring himself to secure Mr. Woods' confirmation in the Senate, when the hawk-eyed New York World intervened and thwacked him editorially last week...
...Woods' appointment, said the World, recognizes the vicious principle that geographical balance of power should influence the choice of Federal commissioners; he was a onetime lawyer for the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and hence would be biased in important decisions now pending before the Interstate Commerce Commission; he was manager of the Pepper-Fisher primary campaign last spring, with its slush record...
...infamous attack, a gross distortion," replied the Pittsburgh Courier, famed Negro weekly newspaper, as its correspondent started an anti-Graphic movement in Manhattan last week. Negroes object to having their hero and educator bandied about in the columns of a pornographic sheetlet...