Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventeen years ago last week, in smart Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
...railroading, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad launched a new streamliner named the "Royal Blue." Last week the Royal Blue was still swashbuckling on its New York-Washington run and the B. & O. system was still operating the 12,000 miles of track between Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh and the Atlantic coast that have long made it a ranking U. S. road. But as 1937 expired it became evident that B. & O. would remember it not so much as an anniversary but as one of the bitterest years in the company's history. In 1936 the B. & 0. made...
...alive. He started baseball in 1883 as a mittless catcher in the Central Massachusetts League-when catchers caught the ball on first bounce. Three years later he made his major-league debut as a catcher for Washington and in 1894 he landed his first managerial job-with the Pittsburgh Pirates. But it was with Milwaukee (1897-1900) that Connie Mack's metamorphosis from a catcher to a manager was really made. At the end of the 1900 season (the year the American League was formed) he went to Philadelphia, was able to persuade
...they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking Co. backed the organization of a third major league, the Federal League, with clubs in Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Buffalo, Newark, Brooklyn. With fat salary checks they tried to lure players from the two older leagues. When Mack's dissatisfied players demanded more money, he decided to break up the team, sold his famed infield to clubs in his own league. The Federal League lost...
...even a miraculous medal, it appeared last week, could make Father Cox's contest look right to the U. S. Post Office Department. Day before the "Garden Stakes" was to close, Father Cox was arrested on charges of Pittsburgh's U. S. Attorney, released on $3,000 bond. He was accused of 1) using the mails to defraud; 2) conducting a lottery. Angry, red-faced Father Cox protested that he had talked with Postmaster General Farley before starting his contest, had been told to go ahead. Cried he: "They'll have to call out the troops first...