Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great boom had given Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For years Standard was controlled by Chicago's private utility bankers, H. M. Byllesby and Co. Nowadays, Byllesby plays second fiddle in Standard to Manhattan's up-&-coming, bargain-hunting Syndicateer Victor Emmanuel...
Christmas means home, and to Harvard home means everywhere. Home of Pittsburgh, to Atlanta, to San Francisco, to Steamboat Springs, to a thousand cities and towns--that's where Harvard will go. Fathers will greet sons; there will be musings and laughter: "So you're in your Junior year! Well, it won't be long now." Church services, Christmas trees, and parties will crowd the days. Parents will hunger for talk, and give advice. Harvard will be at home, in a thousand places at once. Some students will lecture their bewildered families on the war, on politics, or on religion...
Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole...
...Chicago's Walter Jacobs & Albert Weiss: the open pair championship of the American Contract Bridge League, outplaying in other pairs of top-notch players from 21 States, Canada and South America; at Pittsburgh...
...native Virginians, the Fauquier County horsy set is "the second Yankee invasion." Red-blooded Virginians Montgomery are Britishers "once removed," the Calverts hale from Pittsburgh...