Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press, Radio is a chronic plague, and news broadcasting its most annoying symptom. Last week painful pangs were felt in Pittsburgh, and the Press once more wondered where to look for a cure...
Until a year ago, when the Press undertook to control news broadcasting, all three Pittsburgh newspapers put news on the air. The Press (Scripps-Howard) worked through famed KDKA, first broadcasting station in the world; the Post-Gazette through WWSW; and Hearst's Sun-Telegraph through Hearst's WCAE. Then came the Press-Radio "truce" which forbade radio networks to give more than a smattering of news each day (TIME, Feb. 12). The Pittsburgh newspapers and their stations fell obediently into line...
...collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs or, for a small fee, to supply publishers, dealers or students with usable photostats of any of its 200,000 photographs...
...Methodist," says big, imposing Bishop McConnell, 63, "without putting things strongly." A bishop since 1912, he has been transferred from area to area and never put things more strongly than when he was Bishop of Pittsburgh. There, in 1920, he fought the steelmasters, kept them from unseating him when he urged an 8-hour day, a 6-day week. As chairman of an investigating committee during the great steel strike, Bishop McConnell turned in a report which was a forerunner of the Steel Report made by the Federal Council of Churches...
...longest professional tennis match on record, 14 games longer than one in which Vines nosed out Tilden in Los Angeles last year. Still fresh after it was over, Tilden and Vines repeated their victory in Philadelphia the next night and Washington the following night, lost in Pittsburgh night later. At singles, Vines beat Stoefen regularly...