Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania. The James A. Reed investigations showed that he used a slush fund of some $700,000 to win the primaries last spring. Recent researches purport to reveal frauds in the November elections. In many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl, of 25 people who swore they...
Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...
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...housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction. But such murmurs there were, even in Chicago. Three universities had in the past year embarked upon skyscrapers of learning-at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Detroit was contemplating the advent of an 85-story prodigy, complete with barbershops, drug stores, restaurants and a car-checking system, the Book Building, 873 feet high, planned by a young real estate heir† to top all of man's monuments save the Eiffel Tower...
...told them that I had just consented to spend two millions on my dry docks in Baltimore and had no single interest in the city to which I was not ready to devote every dollar I could borrow. I said that in ten years Baltimore would eclipse even Pittsburgh as a steel centre. 'Some of you,' I said, 'thought I was dreaming when I spoke in 1916 of our plans for Sparrows Point. You have seen them realized. . . . You will see this dream of mine tonight come true when, ten years hence, I come again among...