Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This event calls to mind the curious reversal of the tariff situation which is taking place in the United States. In the days of Cleveland and Bryan the Middle--Western farmers were vigorous opponents of the large protectionist manufacturers. Now, as the Canadian Forum points out, many manufacturers are becoming free trade advocates while numerous agrarian organizations favor a reasonably high tariff. Particularly do the farmers see the need of duties on agricultural imports which can be produced at a much cheaper rate in Canada, Argentina, and New Zealand. The manufacturers, on the other hand, due to improved, automatic machinery...
...Cleveland, Ohio...
...corporation must dispose of all its voting stocks in Abbots-Alderney Dairies, Inc., James Butler Grocery Co., Economy Stores Corp., Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc., National Dairy Products Corp., Reid Ice Cream Corp., U. S. Stores Corp. It may keep its shares in Tellings-Belle Vernon (dairy products), Cleveland; H. C. Bohack Co. (chain stores), Brooklyn; First National Stores, New England; Detroit Creamery Co.; David Pender Grocery Co., Virginia; U. S. Dairy Products Corp. of Philadelphia; and non-voting stock in U. S. Stores Corp. and James Butler Grocery...
Last week 57,000 tons more went overboard through the sale by William Averell Harriman's United American Line of the Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Hamburg-American Line. This will give Germany a gross merchant tonnage of 3,130,713, practically where she was in 1917 and not far below her 1919 registry, which the Allies wrecked by confiscation...
Wherefore baseball's old guard viewed with pride and joy the announcement of a correspondence course for umpires, founded and conducted by Umpire Billy Evans, for 20 years a crouching, hawk-eyed figure of American League parks, in wintertime sport editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association in Cleveland. Vendors still cry: "You can't tell the players without a score-card." But no one ever shouted, "You can't tell Billy Evans...