Word: cincinnatis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Larry Jaster of St. Louis, "set a major league record" by shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers five times in a row. Seems to me you should do a little research when you make such statements. He only tied the record set by Grover Cleveland Alexander against the Cincinnati Reds in 1916. I believe Larry is a left-hander-Alex was, of course, a righthanded, sidearm pitcher...
...Alphonso Taft was Attorney General in the Cabinet of fellow Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant, and Patrick Gilligan, recently arrived in Cincinnati from Ireland's Sligo County, began a mortuary business. Cincinnati's Taft dynasty in succeeding generations occupied an ever more commanding role in the Republican Party and U.S. politics. The Gilligans also prospered in their chosen field...
Innovations. In his battle to hold the First Congressional District-covering the eastern half of Cincinnati and Hamilton County-Gilligan bucks more than Taft tradition. He owed his election two years ago to the Goldwater debacle and is only the third Democrat to be elected from the district in this century.* The first two were retired after one term. And Bob Taft, 49, has more impressive credentials than his illustrious name. Elected four times to the Ohio house of representatives, where he served as the Republican floor leader, he won his first statewide race in 1962 to become Congressman...
...match the motto on his placard: "The Congressman who gets things done." He opened a local office, started a newsletter-both innovations in the district -and even put out reports in Braille. He arranged free junkets to Washington for high school students and brought delegations of Washington officials to Cincinnati to discuss local problems with community leaders...
Last week Twachtman received his greatest recognition so far. In his native city of Cincinnati, the art museum opened a retrospective of 134 of his works. Twachtman had none of the dramatics of Whistler, the figurative poise of Mary Cassatt, or the cheerfulness of Childe Hassam. But the show establish es him as a top-rate U.S. impressionist...