Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foster's brother, and we have ample records, contemporary and documentary, showing that the '"White Cottage" where Stephen Foster and my father both were born was located on the exact spot where a brick building called the Stephen C. Foster Memorial Home, at No. 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, now stands. The actual little white frame cottage where my father and his brother Stephen were born was torn down...
...Henry Ford's Greenfield Village was not built when Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness of the home...
...Pittsburgh, Philip Murray, pious and progressive captain of the Committee for Industrial Organization's drive to unite U. S. steelworkers in one big industrial union, announced that new recruits to date totaled 82,315, cried that the re-election of Roosevelt was a signal to "go forward...
Flushed with the triumph of his great & good friend's return to the White House was John Lewis as he buckled down in Pittsburgh at week's end to map his moves in the other major battle in which he is presently engaged. In Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have...
Engaged. Hon. Margaret Gwendolen Mary Drummond, 31, eldest daughter of British Ambassador to Italy Sir Eric Drummond; and John Walker III, 29, of Pittsburgh, now at Rome's American Academy; in London...