Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert, a Negro employe of the New York Curb Exchange, whirled around in the Millrose 600 so rapidly that he left behind two national champions and the 800-metre Olympic champion, Negro John Woodruff of University of Pittsburgh. Catapulted into national publicity when one of them beat Don Lash, world record holder, in the second fastest outdoor two-mile race ever run in the U. S., at the Sugar Bowl Games at New Orleans last month, the arrival of the Rideout Twins for the northern winter track season sent researchers scurrying for data on identical twins in sport...
Died. Sir Percival Phillips, 59, last active newshawk of Britain's official frontline War correspondents, nephew of the onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. Next year, appearing with his bullet-proof typewriter-case just before trouble broke out, he covered the Spanish-American War. Thence he went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began...
...Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause of the Interstate Commerce Act. This clause makes it illegal to charge less for, say, a haul over the same route between Chicago and Pittsburgh (471 mi.) than between Chicago and Cleveland (340 mi.) In competition with trucks and steamships which are not thus restricted, this is a serious handicap to the railroads. Counter-lobbying goes on against such pet Labor proposals as the six-hour day, a half-mile limit on train lengths...
Coach Harman is a onetime University of Pittsburgh footballer, onetime coach at Haverford and the University of the South, now under a new three-year contract at Pennsylvania because his last season was so successful. His team talk, continually revised, shows Biblical as well as football sense. Excerpts...
...organized to classify and protect Madrid's treasures. Head of the Junta is a young Spanish painter who refused to allow his name to be used, but whom correspondents were able to describe as "well known for works he has exhibited at the Carnegie art shows in Pittsburgh."* ¶ The physical work of impounding, packing and shipping to safety Madrid's works of art is in the hands of the Communist Fifth Regiment. Its work is not limited to protecting known works in churches, museums and public buildings. Daily the homes of aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers...