Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three radio groups then active: the Navy, private companies engaged in ship communications and the small group of early-bird amateurs. Anybody who applied got a license. Its issuance was part of the job of the Secretary of Commerce, a very small part until 1920 when KDKA (Pittsburgh) applied for the first wireless telephone broadcasting station license. The Secretary granted it a wave length of 360 meters, continued issuing other stations licenses on the same wave length until...
Resident fellowships went to Tekun Cheng, a graduate of Yenching University, China; James R. Rightover 1G, of Salida, Colorado: Yen-yu Huaug 1G, of Canton, China; Yuch-hwa Lin 1G, Foochow, China; John K. Musgrave Jr. 2G, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Neil M. Rawlinson 2G, Montebello, California; Edwin O. Reischaner 7G, of Tokyo, Japan; and Theodore H. White '38, of Dorchester...
...bullets were round and their motion through the barrel resembled that of the screw ball thrown by Pittsburgh's Cy Blanton, and when the bullet left the end of the barrel, it had a sharper curve than Dizzy Dean's They went straight for a certain distance and then broke sharply like a pitcher nipping the corner of an imaginary plate...
Reporting of the fact that Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan won Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...