Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without comment, hurriedly wired the disputants a plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...
...wings and turning on his Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...
When Mary Lou Williams was only eleven, Pittsburgh's jazzbos, including Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, were already calling for her after school to come and jam with them. Count Basie and Duke Ellington used to slide off their piano benches so she could sit down and they could listen. The night "Satchmo...
...biggest obstacle to this sensible plan was home-town pride. Detroit refused to join, and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pittsburgh have not yet decided whether to come in. But brokers in the other cities liked the idea. Instead of trading in only 14 stocks-as on the Minneapolis Exchange-the consolidated bourse would give Minneapolis floor traders 500 to deal in. They also liked keeping the whole commission for an out-of-town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares...