Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superintendent Peter P. Walsh of the Pittsburgh police, a corpulent, red-faced person who professed ignorance of any seamy side that Pittsburgh may have and was very much flustered by Senator Reed's sharp questions about lining up the police for Candidate Pepper...
Engaged. Henry Gibson Brock, 40, freshly pardoned from the Eastern Penitentiary of Philadelphia, to Miss Margaret Burgwin, Pittsburgh heiress, fresh from Dobbs Ferry School (N. Y.). The romance was carried through prison days...
Highlights. Mr. Vare was placed on the stand and he admitted that besides his contribution of $71,000 to his campaign he had signed a note for $100,000 to help campaign finances. Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh was questioned about a speech he was alleged to have made to city employes declaring that if they did not vote for Pepper they would be separated from the city payroll. This he vehemently denied. Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, Chairman of the Pepper Committee, admitted that a letter favoring Pepper had been published by his committee which purported to be signed by William...
...latter, bizarre. But when Mary Cassatt died last week in Paris, notices were full of the careers of the other Philadelphia Cassatts-of her brothers, the late Alexander J., one-time President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of J. Gardner, head of a banking house. Miss Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh in 1855. She was a "U. S. artist" only by courtesy. Her visits to her country were infrequent and of short duration...
Director Homer St. Gaudens of the Fine Arts section of the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh) last week returned from Europe with an announcement that made the art world sit up and exclaim, "Well, well! That will be interesting...