Word: pittsburgh
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Governor Judd is the son of Chief Justice Judd. He was born in Honolulu 42 years ago, educated at Punahou School, at Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, and the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for the Carnegie Steel Co. at Pittsburgh. for the Whiting Paper Co. in New York In 1909 Hawaii called. He went home to work with a variety of concerns...
Married. Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks. 40, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and of James Evans Jr. of Pittsburgh; mother of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; and Jack Whiting, 28, of Philadelphia, leading man in the musicomedy Hold Everything; at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan...
...companion aviation country club, the Westchester near Greenwich. Conn., will begin operations within a few weeks. Others already in process of organization will be at Philadelphia, Newport, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ruth Nichols, pilot-saleslady, is now on the Pacific Coast explaining the Aviation Country Club idea...
...Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) sneering at Southern solicitude for racial purity, stated: "Everyone knows that the percentage of white blood flowing in the veins of Mr. and Mrs. De Priest is due to the direct violation of Negro womanhood by avaricious Southern white men, who should have remembered in the heat of their unbridled illicit intercourse that Mother Nature does not know how to discriminate in the production of offspring." Pointing squarely at the politicians who fanned the fire, the Courier predicted: "In 1932 they will be parading Mrs. De Priest's photograph to keep the South solid, Democratic...
Other U. S. owners of Hoppner-painted children: Banker John Pierpont Morgan; Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis; Sportsman-Financier Joseph E. Widener; Pittsburgh Banker William Larimer Mellon...