Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roughly comparable U.S. terms, similar air attacks would have devastated three-quarters of Los Angeles, Cleveland, Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Newark, Louisville, St. Paul. Civilized life would no longer be possible in Detroit, Pittsburgh, Buffalo...
...chose their new President, highest honor in U.S. Methodism. Because the presidency alternates annually between a Southerner and a Northerner (a courtesy dating from 1939, when the Southern and Northern Churches were united), the Council's outgoing president, Richmond's Bishop William Walter Peele, was succeeded by Cincinnati's Bishop H. (for Harry) Lester Smith. Cincinnati is Methodism's biggest Area (510,810 church members...
...Cobbler's Basement. A Cincinnati shoemaker was accused of having lured a young girl into his basement shop and killed her. Police dug into the shop's dirt floor, found an amazing collection of bones that seemed to explain a whole series of recent unsolved crimes. When they took the bones to Professor Krogman, he quickly identified them as those of a cow, five sheep, a turkey, a rat, a pigeon, a barn...
...read in the Talmud, "If there be a need for a man, be thou that man," decided he would enter the rabbinate. He left Louisville, went to Johns Hopkins (where an English professor wrote on one of his themes: "Please describe something. You always preach."), then to Cincinnati's University and Hebrew Union College, then to Yale for a doctorate in psychology...
...Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Francis J. Spellman of New York, John T. McNicholas of Cincinnati, Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans and John J. Mitty of San Francisco; Bishops John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, John Mark Gannon of Erie, Karl J. Alter of Toledo and John A. Duffy of Buffalo...