Word: pittsburgh
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Representative Matthew Anthony Dunn of Pennsylvania is the only blind man in the 75th U. S. Congress.* A onetime Pittsburgh newsdealer who says that he "would rather be a radical than a rubber stamp," curly-headed Democrat Dunn often rises, black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house...
Neither passenger had lost his air-mindedness. Mr. King rode Pennsylvania Airline's blind landing plane from Washington to Pittsburgh two days later. Mr. Bane took a plane home from Newark. Nevertheless, Passenger Bane recalled his maiden flight as "a night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going...
...praising Wood, who received his football training at Pittsburgh, like Odell, Dick Harlow said, "Johnny has had one full season with us and I believe he will step into Odell's shoos perfectly. I consider it fortunate for us that he was available. Otherwise, replacing Howdy might have been difficult...
...house which lies along the prairie in four slim wings. A huge chimney with fireplaces on four sides is in the focal living room. At Bear Run, Pa., Wright has just finished his most beautiful job, "Fallingwater," a house cantilevered over a waterfall for Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...
...chain, the President's second son, Elliott Roosevelt, became a big man in the Hearst empire, charged with full and heavy responsibility for making money out of a $2,000,000 string of stations in Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Waco, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee. For two years Elliott ably managed Hearst's southwest network and only three months ago took charge of the West Coast outlets. In October (TIME, Nov. 11), Hearst's 27-year-old Radioman Roosevelt announced he would soon branch out as a radio commentator...