Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Could the Senator from Pennsylvania ask the witness a question? It was "common talk" in Pittsburgh clubs, said the Senator, that Mr. Girdler had been asked to resign from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel. "Because you gave confidential information of your company to the company you are now with...
...Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance had the approval of higher church authorities, obtaining permission to invade the diocese from Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Back in Pittsburgh last week, Fathers Rice and Hensler busied themselves lecturing, answering catechismal questions such...
...without opposition from lesser Pittsburgh priests, the Radical Alliance quickly found a local strike in which to interest itself, that of the Canning & Pickle Workers' Union against Heinz Co., which had recognized a company union for collective bargaining. Fathers Rice & Hensler went down to the pickle workers' picket line, hoisted signs declaring "The Catholic Radical Alliance supports the Heinz strikers." Horrified, the pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor...
...Liable to crankiness, preciosity and short wind, a few nevertheless make themselves useful. Last week an interesting candidate for usefulness published its fifth book in a series devoted to "work of individualists." The press: New Directions, of Norfolk, Conn. The editor: 23-year-old James Laughlin IV of the Pittsburgh steel family...