Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President approved $57.577.000 of U. S. Housing Authority loan contracts for slum clearance projects in Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus (Ohio), Allentown (Pa.), Birmingham (Ala.), Detroit. Beneficiaries: 44,000 slum dwellers. Rentals: $3.75 to $4.25 per room per month. This batch brought USHA slum clearance loans up to a total of $111,070,000 to provide for 20,833 families. Meanwhile, into its Lend-Spend bill the Senate wrote a new appropriation of $300.000,000 for Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (see below...
...young Manhattan strugglers who entered the competition late, gave up hope of winning it early. One was big, placid, 31-year-old Richard Marsh Bennett. A month before the competition closed he teamed up with an old friend, short, nervous, 33-year-old Caleb Hornbostel, son of a celebrated Pittsburgh architect, Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Hell Gate Bridge. Physically unlike as partners in a musical comedy team, Hornbostel and Bennett nevertheless had much in common. They studied at the Beaux Arts together, returned to the U. S. at the low point of the Depression, picked up whatever work they...
...Pittsburgh 17 years ago, a devout, 20-year-old Roman Catholic named Raymond Heintz had a vocation for the priesthood. He earned his way through high school, Duquesne University, St. Vincent's Seminary by driving a taxicab. Last week, wearing clericals as seminarians do, Raymond Heintz turned in his last trip card to the cab company. Next week he is to be ordained. Pittsburgh taximen, 500 of whom planned to attend Father Heintz's first Mass, got up a fund, presented him with a fine gold chalice...
School of Public Health: Fellowships from Rockefeller Foundation Funds to Dr. William McD. Hammon, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a year from June 15, and to Dr. Harald Johnson, of Boston, for ten months from August...
...Everett R. Johnson, Rockfeller Institute. Luna B. Leopold 1G, Willard D. Lewis '35, John Lydenberg 2G. Kenneth MacLeish '38, John K. Musgrave Jr. 2G, John F. Ohl, G.Ed., Charles E. Passage 1G. Charles M. Rick Jr. 1G, Rochester R. Roby, Wilfrid S. Sellars 1G, Reuben E. Slesinger, University of Pittsburgh. Arthur Szathmary 1G, Theodore H. White '38 Francis J. Whitfield, '37 Harold Winkler, University of Chicago. Robert A. Winters 1G, Gilbert F. Woods...