Word: youngstowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead the world in genius for invention, efficiency and utility. There is no reason why we cannot eventually do so in the genius for art and literature." With such hearty optimism, a steel baron named Joseph Green Butler Jr. founded an art institute in Youngstown, Ohio 39 years ago. To set the strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 colonnaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University near by, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon developed into the cultural strip...
...first-prize winner in oils was a hot orange-and-red living-room interior by Gregorio Prestopino (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948). It seemed to suit the factory workers, ladies' clubbers and art fanciers of Youngstown (pop. 180,000); so many came on opening night that the rum for the punch bowl ran out. The painting and the other winners also pleased Joseph Green Butler III, the institute's greying, quiet, 57-year-old director...
...nation's biggest steelmakers seemed in no rush to hike prices. U.S. Steel said only that it was "studying" Alan Wood's move: so were Bethlehem Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Armco Steel and Jones & Laughlin, which added that it would not raise prices until U.S. Steel took the lead. Said Big Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough: "Our immediate conclusion is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation is clarified." When that might be, added Blough: "We cannot forecast." But for years, steel prices have climbed, along with boosts in minimum wages (see chart...
Whetstone. In Youngstown, Ohio, when an amusement-park age guesser overestimated Mary Bowie, 33, she whipped out a switchblade knife, spat threats at him, had to be disarmed by police...
...protect his prestige in future elections, seven-term Councilman and Mayor (1955-57) Taft mailed 3,000 vote-seeking letters to city Republicans. Inevitably, the feud spread beyond Cincinnati. Anti-organization Republicans have taken up pens, are boosting Charlie and the Taft name by mail in Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and other big vote centers. They do not expect to win the nomination, but a big Taft vote could hurt O'Neill's prestige in the general election...