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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan's Jimmy Walker has the narrow oval head; Pittsburgh's Andrew Mellon is pronouncedly among the pear-heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh's Pother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...University of Pittsburgh no longer has a Liberal Club. Two of its student leaders have been expelled. Pittsburgh's Professor of Philosophy Frederick E. Woltman has also been expelled. A visiting celebrity lectured, not in Pittsburgh's Alumni Hall, as he had been invited to do, but in a vacant lot. Thus stood matters last week at the University of Pittsburgh and thus they seemed likely to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Liberal Club, a recognized student activity, intended to hold a forum on the Mooney-Billings case in California,* received University permission to hold it in Alumni Hall. Then Pittsburgh's Chancellor John G. Bowman decided and declared that the Club was using the University's name to propagandize. He revoked the permission. Sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College, who was to have spoken in the hall, agreed to speak anyway, anywhere. The Liberal Club found a vacant lot for its meeting. For holding the meeting at all, the club was abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Playwright Finsterwald is in her early twenties, a native Detroiter. Last year she was graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where, studying dramatics, she won an Otto Hermann Kahn prize for a four-act play called Giants and Chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Tournament | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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