Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five days later a fourth figure popped into what loomed as the biggest corporate anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil in 1911. The distinguished kibitzer was Pittsburgh's Federal District Judge Robert Murray Gibson, 67, and his surprise move was to issue a temporary order restraining Attorney General Cummings and his subordinates from pursuing their action against Alcoa. In their petition for the order, Aluminum Co. attorneys had asserted that: 1) the Attorney General should have sued the company in Pittsburgh where its head offices are," instead of in Manhattan; 2) the charges were...
...haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected with a Mellon enterprise and who, though no creature of the Mellons, does not think much as the Mellons...
...Mellon "industrial fellowship" has worked extraordinarily well. Last year "donors" gave $816,315. This financed 69 fellowships. Since 1911 almost 4,000 U. S. companies including Aluminum Company of America, Pennsylvania Railroad, Simmons Company (beds), Koppers Gas & Coke Company, Ward Baking Com pany, Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. (shirts, collars), Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, have paid the Mellon Institute $11,478,406 for research. Said Director Weidlein last week: "Most of the problems have been solved satisfactorily." Workers have produced 19 books, 143 bulletins, 744 research reports, 1,117 miscellaneous papers as a result of their work...
...research completed just in time for cheering at the dedicatory exercises last week was a new derivative of quinine which relieves pneumonia. While Mr. Mellon listened attentively, Dr. William Watt Graham MacLachlan, physician-in-chief of Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital where the stuff was given to patients last year, reported that the use of hydroxy-ethyl-apocupreine cut his pneumonia death rate in half. Only 27% of his patients died as compared with the 45% Pittsburgh mortality rate. It is given like quinine in capsules by mouth...
Bona fide news in the current News warns the fraternity to stay out of the South now that chain gangs are out on the roads; felicitates Chicago's Billy Whiskers on his release from a Florida work camp; recounts that Smokehouse Eddie is vacationing in Pittsburgh; records that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific...