Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Southern California's track team defend its National Collegiate Athletic Association title. They expected Stanford, whom the Trojans had already vanquished in a dual meet and in the Pacific Coast Conference championships, to take second place. They expected to see Johnny Woodruff, long-striding University of Pittsburgh Negro, break the N.C.A.A. record for the half-mile. They expected old Amos Alonzo Stagg, now coaching football at the College of the Pacific, to officiate as head referee at the meet he inaugurated in Chicago 16 years ago. In particular, the 15,000 track fans had come expecting...
Apologists for tear gas, like President John W. Young of Pittsburgh's Federal Laboratories who introduced the stuff to industrial use,* argue that it causes no harm, only a temporary weeping. Last week the American Medical Journal gave them...
William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...
...Pittsburgh live three Catholic priests who believe that Mother Church can meet Radicalism, her archfoe, on its own ground. One night last week they assembled 300 followers in the Pittsburgh Lyceum to hear about their month-old Catholic Radical Alliance. With 200 working members, these priests have attempted to get into labor strife wherever it was thickest. Their activities had been featured on the front pages of the Pittsburgh Catholic, and last week that official organ of conservative Bishop Hugh Charles Boyle printed the Alliance's appeal for funds. Excerpts...
...Catholic Radical Alliance founders and leaders are Rev. Charles Owen Rice of St. Agnes Church in Pittsburgh, Rev. Carl P. Hensler of St. Lawrence Church and Monsignor G. (for George) Barry O'Toole, 50, strapping, hearty Benedictine builder of Catholic University in Peiping, until last fortnight head of the philosophy department at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University. Monsignor O'Toole and the two younger priests patterned their Alliance after a group in Manhattan led by Dorothy Day, onetime Socialist, and Peter Maurin, onetime French hobo, whose radical Catholic Worker competes with the Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical...