Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grover Cleveland drank. Calvin Coolidge does not. In many another way the two-term Democrat and the two-term Republican differ. Cleveland is the first President whom Calvin Coolidge can remember. A word unites them. It is perhaps Calvin Coolidge's favorite: "character." He keynoted it in a recent speech (Armistice Day). He has used it in nearly every speech. Last week, regretting his inability to make a speech on the 90th anniversary of Grover Cleveland's birth, he used it: "Character . . . stability . . . efficiency...
...President Grover Cleveland (Gold Democrat) offered him the treasury seat. Mr. Gage refused. In 1896, he and other Gold Democrats helped Mark A. Hanna defeat William Jennings Bryan (Silver-tongued Silver Democrat) and, to be polite to the Gold Democrats who voted for his candidate, Mark Hanna gave Mr. Gage the Treasury post in William McKinley's Cabinet. Theodore Roosevelt irked Mr. Gage, and he left the Cabinet as soon after Mr. McKinley's death as it was proper to do so. He had done his work well. Mr. Gage had but two honorary degrees-one from Beloit...
Principal H. H. Cully of Glenville High School, Cleveland, arose to address his graduating class and their parents. Great was the latters' dismay when, as they awaited breathless to hear their children lauded as Splendid Examples of Young American Womanhood & Manhood, Principal Cully harshly, sarcastically denounced the entire class as a "scholastic failure," more than hinting that none deserved diplomas. Irate, one C. L. Simpson, citizen, wrote to a local newspaper that for at least twelve years Principal Cully (21% years at his post) had "handed" each Glenville graduating class, instead of a bouquet a "generous dose of satirical...
...Pioneer Press, Baltimore's Sun, Toledo's Blade -submitted to the logic of their past scandal policies and told their readers, in front-page despatches from news services and special correspondents, about the abnormalities of a fat old flesh-potter in a distant city. The sensational Cleveland News, stewing in its own juice finally became disgusted with itself and apologized to the public, in real misery...
...Cutler '09, of Cleveland, Ohio...