Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged that Republic Steel had sent seven company policemen, some of them formerly employed by Jones & Laughlin, to interfere with the election. Jones & Laughlin denied knowledge of their presence, Republic said they were merely sent as observers, but warrants were issued for their arrest. Meanwhile at Pittsburgh and neighboring Aliquippa, 24,000 of Jones & Laughlin's 27,000 workers filed quietly through the National Labor Relations Board's polling places in the plants, cast ballots voting "yes" or "no" on representation by S. W. O. C. Near dawn next morning the Labor Board announced that...
Last fortnight Assistant Attorney General Jackson, one of the nation's ablest trial lawyers, went to Pittsburgh and did his persuasive best to make Judge Gibson change his mind. He denied that the charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa...
...night last week at grim Aliquippa, Pa., 25 miles down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, flames leaping up from great Jones & Laughlin blast furnaces flickered over the tense, expectant faces of thousands of men, women and children massed outside the five-mile-long plant's gates. Sharp at 11 p. m. came the deadline which Jones & Laughlin's C. I. O. unionists had set when they voted to strike unless the corporation signed a union contract. Marching out of J. & L. plants both in Aliquippa and Pittsburgh, the unionists shut down the nation's fourth largest steel...
...Pittsburgh last week convening members of the American Psychiatric Association showed their greatest interest in the cases of an almost brainless Pittsburgh matron and a number of imbecile Baltimore maids...
...Pittsburgh lives a woman who had the entire right side of her brain removed on account of a tumor, Dr. Stuart N. Rowe of Pittsburgh told his fellow psychiatrists last week. Instead of dying or at least suffering paralysis of her left side, the woman survived and now competently directs a large household. Her memory is not so good as it once was, but she does | not lose the thread of magazine continued stories. All this is most unorthodox according to the hitherto accepted principles of brain physiology. But to Dr. Leland B. Alford of St. Louis, also...