Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What has stood most seriously in its path in this country has been the fear that, in spite of the actual simplicity of the voting, it would look too complicated to American voters. This fear has been dispelled by actual experience. Spreading from smaller cities, the great city of Cleveland with an 800,000 population adopted it in 1921 by direct populate vote as a basic feature of a new city charter. In 1924, Cincinnatti followed Cleveland's lead. In 1926 Hamilton, Ohio, did likewise. It is now in use in Ireland for choosing the members of the national parliament...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics in the University has announced plan for an extensive speaking trip throughout the east and middle west. His program, which includes Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Detroit, Michigan, is as follows...
Wednesday (noon), February 9--Cleveland, Ohio...
Commercial baseball, scandalized for some weeks before the public eye, hurried its wranglings to a close. In Chicago, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of "fixing" a game in 1919 (TIME, Jan. 3). Indications were that both would be exonerated. Meantime a head bigger than theirs was chopped off. Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder of the American League in 1900 and its president ever since, accused Commissioner Landis of wilfully and improperly publishing the Cobb and Speaker evidence after receiving it from the American...
After the two initial performances April at the Hasty Pudding Club in Cambridge, the entire company will go on an extended trip during the spring vacation. Last year the tour included Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg, and New York. A trip visiting different cities except for New York, is planned for this springs...