Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's parade was advertised in advance as the last the G. A. R. would ever hold. But the spunky oldsters enjoyed it so much that they proceeded to elect a new commander-in-chief, C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburgh, optimistically plan a 71st Encampment in Madison, Wis. next year...
Because he cannot "defend a failure." Mr. Smith announced he was going over to the London camp. Just what this failure amounts to was shown in cold facts by President Roosevelt at Pittsburgh the same evening. The increase in the public debt during the past three year's has been $8,000,000,000, while the increase in the annual national income during that period has been $15,000,000,000. If would be interesting for Mr. Smith and his friends to challenge this $8,000,000,000 as a reasonable price for recovery. During the year ending October...
Last week Preaching Teams at Albany. Buffalo and Pittsburgh followed the regular program laid out for future missions: Contact with every minister and influential layman in the community. This was achieved through: ij morning meetings of ministers and women; 2) luncheons for lay leaders, women, all office holders of all local churches; 3) noontime evangelist meetings in a downtown church or theatre; 4) afternoon seminars for ministers and laymen, conferences for young people; 5) evening mass meetings and sings; 6) huge Sunday popular mass meetings...
...when Harry Sheldon started working at Leechburg in a steel mill of old Kirkpatrick & Co., there was no high school at Tarentum, nor had he ever seen the inside of one anywhere else. He got his start in the Episcopal Home for Boys at Lawrenceville, near Pittsburgh, emerging at 14 to a $2 a week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved...
Founder Sheldon, now grey, wiry, slightly bent, lives in Pittsburgh, is driven to work every day at his Brackenridge plant, takes little interest in a farm he once bought-as a business proposition- outside Butler, Pa. His distaste for publicity is matched only by his fondness for brass bands. Old Allegheny workers call him "Harry." In 25 years his mills have been closed less than a week as the result of labor troubles. To his well wishers last week he replied, extemporaneously, having lost his notes in the confusion: "This tribute is not for me. It is for the company...