Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Announced was a Roosevelt speech in Pittsburgh on Oct. 1. The President explained that because of European conditions, he dared not leave the Capital for more than four days at a time. After election, however, he will take a two week fishing trip to the Bahamas...
...Christ in America advertised the undertaking as "the greatest united venture in religion on the part of Protestant churches of America in this generation." Starting with Albany, N. Y. last week, preaching teams of at least ten men and women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings, Mont., Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Ore., San Francisco-Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Boston, winding up with a multitudinous evangelical mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the second week of December...
...leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee. Minister of famed Labor Temple and editor of the Presbyterian Tribune. Three days before, he dropped dead at the University of Minnesota while addressing a conference on social work...
...named Herman Seydel in which that Doctor of Philosophy declared that a compound of benzoates of his devising was the long-sought single cure for arthritis (TIME, Sept. 14). The speech was released for immediate publication, though Chemist Seydel was not to deliver it before the Society, meeting in Pittsburgh, until four days later. So closely watched is all news pertaining to health that upon the advance mention of this new concoction Chicago headquarters of the American Medical Association was immediately overwhelmed by long-distance calls, telegrams, letters, personal visits. What was that new drug? Was it really a cure...
...chemist dared to make a medical statement were Dr. Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. publicist, and Chemist Paul Nicholas Leech, director of the A. M. A.'s chemical laboratories. Chemist Leech whipped off a telegram to President Edward Bartow of the American Chemical Society, and rushed to Pittsburgh to protest in person. The Leech telegram: "Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and I join in protest to the American Chemical Society against the use of its agency in aiding the premature and unethical exploitation of this proprietary. . . . May we suggest that proper officials...