Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh last week at a Community Forum appeared Editor Clarence Hathaway of the Daily Worker in a debate with Father Charles Owen Rice of Pittsburgh. The question before the meeting: "Can a Catholic Accept the Outstretched Hand of Communism...
Father Rice, a founder of Pittsburgh's labor-aiding Catholic Radical Alliance (TIME, June 28, 1937) and of St. Joseph's House of Shelter, for which he says "a wealthy Catholic who hates my radical guts kicks in a hundred bucks a week," retorted: "We will accept the outstretched hand of Communists only when it ceases to be Communist and relinquishes the doctrines and tactics that have put it beyond the pale of normality and ethics." Father Rice and Communist Hathaway appeared agreed on one thing only: that anti-Semitism is "Fascist propaganda." The audience did not record...
...Steel, which once produced 90% of the nation's steel, now produces only 37% and is heartily tired both of being called monopolistic and of losing business to independent companies. Last summer, therefore, it abolished price differentials between its Pittsburgh. Chicago and Birmingham plants which had compensated independent mills for their competitive disadvantages...
...view of that, the most interesting statement of last week in Pennsylvania was one issued in Pittsburgh by a sharp-faced, dark-skinned personage who occupies a mansion hard by the swank Oakmont Country Club and is known throughout the Negro world as: 1) publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...
Fact was that Democratic strength in Pennsylvania's black precincts was not so badly jeopardized as it appeared. Publisher Vann is a smart Negro-born in the tobacco-market town of Ahoskie, N. C. in 1882, graduated by Pittsburgh University in 1906, from its law school in 1909, he grubbed at the law until he got stock in the Pittsburgh Courier for drawing its charter, later got control and built its circulation up from 50,000 to a peak of 187,000 by plugging Equal Rights, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and Franklin Roosevelt...