Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silk socks and weighs 205 lb., goes on many a Roosevelt fishing trip, frequently visits the White House, attended the Du Pont-Roosevelt nuptials, accompanied the President on two of his three major campaign trips last year, a swing to Denver, another through West Virginia to Pittsburgh. Credited with having assembled the Brain Trust in 1932, Judge Rosenman, unlike the Brain Trusters, kept out of the limelight. Last week Judge Rosenman was drafted, but again for a spot far from the limelight. After a conference with his friend Franklin Roosevelt, he packed himself off for a ten-week stay near...
...some 200,000 Croats in the U. S., about 50,000 live near Pittsburgh. No (luckier than any of these laboring people, until last spring, were the 400 families in the parish of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Millvale, a poor little town on the north bank of the Allegheny just above Pittsburgh's mills. Then one day in April an agile wisp of a man with a soft beard came to live in the parish house with Father Albert Zagar. Scaffolding went up in the church and every day at early mass Croatian women could...
...other question concerned his willingness to run for a third term. Fred W. Perkins, oldtime newshawk attached to Scripps-Howard's Pittsburgh Press, brought it up. Robert Post, Harvard '32 and a lodge-brother of the Roosevelts in Harvard's Fly Club, now a newshawklet for the New York Times helped to push the question home...
...thrown forward against dashboard, windshield, steering wheel or seat by their own inertia when their car suddenly slams to a stop. Last week Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams, speed flyer of note and writer of ability (TIME, Jan. 11), proposed a simple remedy in his daily column in the Pittsburgh Press. Excerpt...
...actual profits were expected to compare favorably with a year ago. Operations in the steel industry were above a year ago although strikes cut the rate from above 90% capacity in May to around 75% currently. The price of steel scrap, a good barometer of steel opinion, advanced in Pittsburgh last week for the first time since April. Summed up Manhattan's National City Bank at the end of the fiscal year...