Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John L. Lewis and 518 other delegates to a constitutional convention assembled in Pittsburgh to bury the three-year-old Committee for Industrial Organization...
...piece, John Lewis depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board; 3) the men whom he chooses to help him run his congress. Last week he and the convention concluded five busy days in the gilded convention hall of Pittsburgh's ornate Grotto Temple by choosing the following: President˜John Llewellyn Lewis...
...emphasize football is to hold the games in the morning. Another is to quit subsidizing players. The University of Pittsburgh, whose eleven is justly famed, seemed to have taken the second course last week. It ordered 22 freshman football players to pay the promissory notes they had signed for the first semester's tuition...
Died. Jennie Taylor King (Mrs. Richard Beatty) Mellon, widow of the late Secretary of the Treasury's younger banker brother (who left an estate estimated at $80,000,000 when he died in 1933); of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Mellon's last request: that her age should be kept secret...
...Koch, Jr. '34, has been awarded a prize of $1000 in the Pittsburgh Glass Institute competition...