Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People v. the Interests. The train hurtled across Pennsylvania, pausing at Pittsburgh. At Crestline, Ohio, the President told 1,500 railway workers and families that he was "saddened and shocked" by the death of Count Bernadotte. The train slid into the Englewood yards where a herd of Chicago politicians climbed aboard. It was 3 a.m. Cook County Commissioner Arthur X. Elrod boomed disappointedly: "The big wheel's asleep." But Mr. Truman got out of bed for a chat with Cook County Boss Jake Arvey. Then the train rolled on into Iowa...
...helping to test the campaign-expenditures provision of the Taft-Hartley law (TIME, June 28), Pressman collected a whopping $37,500 for himself-with an equal amount for his co-counsel, Charles J. Margiotti of Pittsburgh, and $9,000 in additional expenses. Angrily ordering immediate payment of the whole bill, C.I.O. President Phil Murray noted bitterly: "The fee would have been outrageous, even for Standard...
Died. William Nissley McNair, 68, fiddle-playing onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...
...controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss of the world's biggest bituminous coal producer...
...South, not a single newspaper ran the angry series that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Reporter Ray Sprigle wrote after four weeks of touring the "Land of Jim Crow." Admittedly onesided, his stories of segregation, discrimination and degradation (TIME, Aug. 16) made the South look bad. Last week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor...