Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HELENE BIEDERMAN Cincinnati, Ohio...
Unequivocal disapproval came last week from one of the top archbishops in the U.S. hierarchy. To the clergy of Cincinnati, from whom authoritarian Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas, 67, demands implicit obedience, came an archdiocesan letter which minced no words...
...There was the 37th Division, once Ohio National Guard, and still the "Buckeye Division" although its troops from Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and a thousand Ohio towns and hamlets now served alongside fighting men drafted from across the nation. Its commander, 52-year-old Robert Sprague Beightler, was a civilian soldier with active service on the /Mexican border and in World War I. Between wars he had been a construction engineer, had become director of Ohio's State Highway Department. Round-faced, warm-eyed General Beightler had been the first National Guard officer to lead his division into combat...
...boss of the Cincinnati Reds a decade ago, Larry the Red painted the park orange, introduced usherettes and night baseball. Attendance figures doubled. He founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants, one world championship. Then MacPhail took over the seventh-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co. for a half-million dollars. He talked the banking gentlemen out of another $300,000, peeled off dizzy amounts for new players, promoted crowd-drawing grudge fights with every club in the National League. When he quit Flatbush for the Army three years ago (the colonel...
Only 54 miles ahead was Manila. There, in the old officers' club more than 40 years ago, a second lieutenant of engineers and a second lieutenant of infantry had first met: West Point's distinguished graduate Douglas MacArthur and Cincinnati Technical High School's Walter Krueger...