Word: safetyman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh's "safety director," one James M. Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been...