Word: cleveland
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Clubmen and Editors. Votes or questionnaires sent to members of the Directory of Directors in New York City, the Cleveland Rotary Club, Rochester Kiwanis and Kansas City Clubs, in all except the last, showed a majority in favor of repeal or modification of Prohibition. Similar votes among laboring men in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, Missouri, Pennsylvania, showed only an inconsiderable minority for the continuance of Prohibition. Votes by editors of newspapers showed a considerable majority in favor of Prohibition...
While New York City was making a great rumpus over the choice of its candidates for Mayor, Cleveland made not half the fuss over the actual choice of its mayor. For the choice of the Cleveland mayor lay not with the people but with the city council. One mayor, Clayton C. Townes, resigned, and another, John D. Marshall, was promptly elected by the council. But the office of mayor in Cleveland is not panoplied and surrounded with the halo of office, for the city is governed by a city manager, at present able, active William R. Hopkins...
...Regardless of the fact that Robert M. LaFollette is running as a Republican and is using the Republican machinery in Wisconsin, he is standing on a platform containing planks that were rejected as against the part interests at the Republican National Convention at Cleveland last year...
Died, Charles H. Tucker. 85, oil and transportation magnate; in Cleveland, after a short illness. Although he was an active officer in many companies, although he once refused to accept an important post in the growing Standard Oil Co. when begged to do so by John D. Rockefeller (see Page 10), although-after handing over his business to his son, he found idleness so little to his taste that he returned as Secretary of his son's company, The Cleveland Plain Dealer found his life significant for a simple social courtesy which, long ago, he was called upon...
...Cleveland, 200 ambitious, attentive young men, about to be sworn in as attorneys, listened to the words of a grim jurist in a shovel-tail coat-a gentleman whose pointed head, lean yellow face and sardonic lip bristle gave him a Mephistophelian air, but whose words were admonitory, noble, penetrating. He-Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the Ohio Supreme court-was flaying the professional ethics of Clarence D arrow, famed champion of Leopold, Loeb and the Ape. Said he, referring to the Scopes trial (TIME, July...