Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dining at Simpson's and going to the theatre. To reporters who hounded him for a statement, he calmly announced that he would have none to make "at least until I return to the United States." Meanwhile, in the U. S. the story published last week by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Hugo Black had once been and still is a member of the nearly defunct Ku Klux Klan (TIME, Sept. 20), ceased to be a minor newspaper coup and became the prize political scandal of the year...
...good reasons for severing them, and no one had the slightest doubt that his feeling for the Klan was even deader than the Klan itself. Last week, however, after all its political importance had passed, the question of Hugo Black and the Klan still seemed hot enough to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the North American Newspaper Alliance for them to start a series of articles exposing...
...economic teachings, train priests and laymen in organizing social-minded Catholic groups, apply moral laws to economic life. At the University Monsignor Haas will encounter, among other kindred priests, a newly-appointed philosophy professor, Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, founder of the Catholic Radical Alliance in Pittsburgh (TIME, June...
...like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most of his 62 years running utilities in the U. S. and Japan. Since marrying Mary Emma Guffey in 1902, he has made Pittsburgh his headquarters, is currently president of Thermatomic Corp., has a 245-acre farm at Slippery Rock...
...alert Bowman went into the coffee-roasting business, impulsively sold out when it occurred to him that candy lozenges like Life Savers would be a great success if flavored with coffee. Intending to work out his idea at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, he was surprised to learn that it had been tried before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year...