Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh was reported swinging from isolation to hemisphere defense, but not yet to helping in Europe. Schenley High School, a famed local barometer, voted 55-45% against "cooperation" with France and England. Talk about the war-products possibilities of Pittsburgh's multifarious factories made labor recall war wages even as capital recalled war profits...
...Pittsburgh, Rev. Thomas Francis Coakley of swank, well-publicized Sacred Heart Church (which acquired an electrically-heated baptismal font last year) issued a pamphlet, Church Manners. Price: 10?. The pamphlet tells when to sit, stand, kneel, genuflect (drop briefly on the right knee) during services. Some other observations...
...league team will have at least one sponsor. Procter & Gamble Co., for example, will broadcast some of the New York Yankees, Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers games to boost Ivory Soap. Atlantic Refining Co.-sponsoring a share of the games of the two Boston teams, the two Philadelphia teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and a host of minor leaguers-will give players $5 books of gas-&-oil coupons for home runs and shutouts. Socony-Vacuum will cover twelve major-league teams, many minors. Biggest plunger of all will be a perennial baseball sponsor, General Mills Inc., with 14 major-league teams...
...with a gridiron reputation, an M. A. and LL.B. cum laude. Going to Atlanta as a stranger to practice law, he attracted both friends and clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp., he became a Republic director. When in 1932 a change in Koppers management sent John Brookes back to Washington...