Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Churchill Brown Mehard raked through a personal inheritance so fast and thoroughly that in 1937 his family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill...
Thus last week the watchful reporters who cover Pennsylvania's Legislature voted their conviction that Democrat Homer S. Brown of Pittsburgh's "Hill" area has plenty of ability. What made the vote news: Homer Brown is a Negro...
...sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown voted to impeach Pittsburgh's comic Democratic Mayor McNair, to investigate Democratic Governor Earle's beclouded administration...
Walter O. Roberts 1G, of West Brigewater, Mass.; Arthur L. Selikowitz 1G, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Reuben E. Slesinger 1G, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; David Spring, Toronto '39; Robert C. Stauffer 3G, of Minneapolis, Minn.; David M. Stocking Michigan '39; Samuel S. Stratton 1G, of Holley, N. Y.; Ralph E. Wentworth, Bangor, Me. now graduate student at University of Maine; and Morton G. White, of New York, N. Y. now graduate student at Columbia University...
From the list of Junior nominations, Henry A. Burgess of Sheridan, Wyoming and Leverett House was appointed. The other three were: Ward M. Hussey of Chicago and Lowell House, Blair Clark of Princeton, N. J. and Ted Hazlett of Pittsburgh and Kirkland House...