Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current trunk-line proposition involves the Wabash (controlled by the Pennsylvania), the Western Maryland, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia (Taplin property) and the Wheeling & Lake Erie (disputed between Taplins and Van Sweringens). The Wabash and the Western Maryland are units in the B. & O.'s merger plan now before the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Similar independent meetings were held about the same time elsewhere, notably at Friendship, N. Y., May 16, 1854. The first state convention of Republicans met at Jackson, Mich.,* July 6, 1854, the first national convention at Pittsburgh Feb. 22, 1856. Today New York, Ripon, Friendship, Jackson, Pittsburgh all claim to have "founded" the Republican party...
Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...
Through the courtesy of the CRIMSON, an 800 word summary of the outstanding events of the recent college your has been compiled and sent to Station KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The review will be broadcast this evening, as a part of a program in honor of the five Harvard men who are members of Commander Byrd's Antarctic expedition...
...yard dash--Bowen (Pittsburgh). Time--48 2-5 seconds...