Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Realizing that within State boundaries the State is sovereign and that the Federal Government has no escheat powers save in its territories, they probed further, learned that in the custody of the Treasury awaiting disposition was $160,000 in such funds from the District Courts at Philadelphia, Scranton and Pittsburgh...
...manuals, traced unclaimed dividends, stocks, bonds, interest, unclaimed deposits by gas, telephone and water customers, filed a series of informations between April and September 1935 that finally impressed Pennsylvania's Secretary of Revenue and moved him to start action. Then Governor Earle, responding to shouts by the Pittsburgh Press about a political "Sixteen Million Dollar Grab," urged passage of a law to require corporations to report all such escheatable sums directly to the State and barred fees to informers.* Last week's suit if successful will force Pennsylvania to go through with the Edelman & Creskoff informations...
...Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...
Were Henry Ford bowled over by a Ford or William Knudsen by a Chevrolet, he would feel as President Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. felt when, landing at Pittsburgh with ten other passengers in a TWA plane, the tail wheel snagged and the big Douglas ground-looped, smacking its wing into a temporary grandstand. Injuries: none...
Fellowships of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, totalling $2,400, for Oriental study, to Arthur G. Henry 1G, of New York City; Yuesh-hwa Lin, now studying at the Yenching Institute; and John K. Musgrave 1G, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...