Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manipulated the state bureaucracy to its own vast advantage. But the tide turned. Just ten years ago. Republicans held a registration advantage of 1,000,000; now Democrats are ahead by more than 200.000. Democrat George Leader served as Governor from 1955 to 1959; he was succeeded by Pittsburgh's Democratic Mayor David Lawrence. Until two years ago. Pennsylvania since the Civil War had voted for only one Democrat for President-that, of course, was F.D.R. But in 1960, under Lawrence, the state went for Kennedy over Nixon by 116.000 votes-and gave the winner...
Unfortunately, all this political power has served Pennsylvania badly. And the Keystone State-all the way from the anthracite regions of the east, across the Allegheny Mountains to the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the west-is in desperate economic shape. Pennsylvania has some 350,000 unemployed. Of its 67 counties, 56 are designated by the Federal Government as depressed areas...
...Other Side. The Dilworths were in Pennsylvania even before the Scrantons. They also had a town named after them: Dilworthtown. in Lancaster County. By the time Dick Dilworth was born, on Aug. 29, 1898, the family had moved to Pittsburgh, established a profitable iron firm. Like that of the Scrantons, the Dilworth family fortune was founded on turning out iron for the state's rapidly expanding railroads...
...Pittsburgh 20, Dallas...
...Pennsylvania's heavily Catholic Allegheny County, partial shared time is not new. More than 5,000 parochial school students already take home economics and industrial arts in Pittsburgh city schools. But they do not report daily, go on their own. St. Thomas High's youngsters are uniquely integrated with Forbes Trail School. In approving the scheme, Allegheny County School Superintendent Alfred Beattie cased every possible legal trap. While riding on the bus, the youngsters are defined as public school students. To avoid problems, they even get on and off at public Braddock High School, walk the two blocks...