Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tatum never meant to be a professional basketball player. But Abe Saperstein, the sapient impresario of the Globe Trotters, happened to see him playing first base with Cincinnati's Negro American League Ethiopian Clowns last summer. Last week Tatum's extensible equipment was helping the Globe Trotters to be one of the most successful professional basketball teams...
...meeting of the Brooks House Cabinet last night, Richard N. Swift '44 of Adams House and Bloomfield, New Jersey, took over the post of president left vacant by the departure Sunday of George M Burditt '44, and Thomas Stanton '44 of Eliot House and Cincinnati, was elected vice-president...
...President Benjamin Harrison had nominated Murat Halstead, crusading editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette as Minister to Germany. The Senate dug into his past, found he had written blistering exposes of the then common practice of buying Senatorial seats (Senators were elected by State Legislatures), and turned him down...
Horace Taft practiced law briefly in William Howard Taft's Cincinnati office, then tutored Latin at Yale before deciding to open a boys' school in 1890. At that time when a boy was sent away to school people usually asked, "What's the matter with him?" Taft first thought of Kansas City, but it seemed too frontierlike. He began his school-"small and in some ways comical"-at Pelham Manor (near New York City) with seven day pupils and ten boarders, whom he woke each morning by pulling off their blankets...
...Other prominent Taft brothers: Charles Phelps, Cincinnati publisher (died 1929), and Henry Waters, of Manhattan's law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft...