Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month as a secretary by day, and by night went to Professor Dennis O'Connor's $25-a-month classes in math, geography, history, English and Latin. After three years he was able to pass exams to enter night law classes at the University of Pittsburgh, and graduated at 22, the youngest in his class...
...World War I overseas hitch as a tank captain, he settled down to a $75-a-month job preparing briefs for a law firm, and worked briefly as a bank trust officer. He didn't like it, tried politics, served one term as a Republican state representative. When Pittsburgh's Peoples Savings and Trust Co. offered him $7,500 a year as a trust officer, 27-year-old Bill Price grabbed...
...only enjoyed what parts of the job had to do with law." When the depression threatened the bank, Price got interested, found that "there was such a thing as organizing just to stay alive." He organized so furiously that in 1940, at 44, he became president of Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co., fifth biggest bank in the city...
...using billboards and big newspaper ads to build business, and astounded reporters, who had never been able to get the time of day at Peoples' before, by telling them: "The door is always open, and I'll tell you anything I can." Some crusty oldtimers at Pittsburgh's potent Duquesne Club began wondering about "that crazy...
Command Decisions. From his 23rd-floor, Gateway Center headquarters in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, Price runs his side of the race with all the quiet, unspectacular efficiency of one of his electric motors. No desk-pounder, when he wants something done, he offers it as a polite suggestion. But if it isn't done, Price is apt to remind a deputy: "When I make a suggestion. I don't mean it to be ignored." His aides have learned that he has "a whim of iron." He always uses the direct approach, either phones a man or sees...