Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks to Daughter Helen Iversen Dixon for identifying her father in one of his rare photographs and for supplying an authentic description of his speech. The man at the centre of the Pittsburgh University Club party, whom TIME erroneously labeled as the president of Mesta Machine Co., was Jerzy Matusinski, then Polish Consul at Pittsburgh, now Consul General in Manhattan. Last week President Iversen reported that his company earned $1,517,250 last year from making steel machines, promised stockholders a full capacity year...
Henry Marlowe Curry Jr., 48, is a solid-looking citizen of Pittsburgh whose inheritance from his father, a onetime partner of Steelman Andrew Carnegie, supports his stock-trading and 6,000 acres near Waynesboro, Ga. There, with the assistance of Trainer Fred Bevan, he raises pointers, shoots and fishes. He rarely finds time to attend dog trials himself. Last week he was visiting his son at Phillips Academy at Andover...
When the last curtain fell on a performance of L'Aiglon in Pittsburgh, freckled Actress Eva Le Gallienne stepped across the footlights. Said she: "Some stars and actors, seeing this small house, wouldn't work. They'd say 'to hell with it' and loaf through their performances. I think you'll agree that each member of our company tonight has given his best. Do me a favor. Go out and get more people to come here and see our show...
Died, Henry Clay McEldowney, 66, president of Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co. (Mellon bank), friend and associate of Andrew William Mellon and the late Henry Clay Frick; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City, N. J. His 1932-33 salary of $165,000 was the highest paid any U. S. banker (TIME, March...
...dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch law. We have too little freedom in our universities now; some of them, like the University of Pittsburgh are unfit for any intellectually honest teacher and have sold out to big business. To permit the success of these efforts to ferret out so-called radicals with the students or teachers would be treason to the entire teaching profession. It is as base as it is un-American. Harvard, which...