Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 1,000 preachers, putting up in Ocean Grove's colony of 200 tents, or staying in its lacklustre boarding houses and private homes, attended an annual conference on evangelism led by Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of Pittsburgh. This week the 68th annual Camp meeting is to open in the auditorium. Last year its series of daily meetings attracted 62,430 people, and Ocean Grove expects attendance to be even better this year. So far, morning and evening crowds at Sunday auditorium services have averaged 4,000. According to Joseph A. Thoma, 39-Year-old city manager...
Federal Laboratories, Inc. Pittsburgh...
...years ago Negro Edward Lee Harris, who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1927 and then taught chemistry at Texas' Negro Bishop College, returned to Pitt to study for his Ph.D. degree. The only way he could support his wife and two children was by working nights as a janitor in Pitt's State Hall. This spring obscure Janitor Harris was on the verge of his Ph.D. but did not know how to raise the $150 necessary for his final graduation fee. Then he was uncovered by newshawks and photographers searching for copy for the University...
...story was promptly featured by the Pittsburgh press, picked up by the Associated Press, United Press, Scripps Howard's N. E. A. Feature Service. Before the sesquicentennial publicity died away Janitor Harris had outstripped by clipping count Pitt's celebrated Football Coach Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland and become Pitt's No. 1 news story of the year...
...hostesses, having shown so much desirable experience that they were allowed to skip training school, were already at work last week on New Haven dining cars-four on the Merchant's Limited, one on the Bay Stater, one on the 4 p. m. (E.D.S.T.) express from Boston to Pittsburgh. They are paid $30 weekly plus meals while on duty, work six days a week, live in women's hotels specified by Superintendent Quinlan at each end of the line...