Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benedict Crowell of Cleveland, 0., is a builder and contractor of large consequence. He was Assistant Secretary of War from 1917 to 1920. He supervised the construction of training camps and engaged in the work of supplying the Army with arms, munitions and equipment. In January of this year he (with six of his associates) was suddenly and unexpectedly indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government on contracts for construction of war camps. The charge declared that in the awarding of cost plus contracts Mr. Crowell had been interested in one of the companies which had done some...
...permanent guest at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus. For three years prizes have been offered to stimulate interest, including one by the Governor. Seven Ohio cities and towns are represented in this year's Fair, including exhibits by George W. Bellows, Alice Schille, the Potter Studios (Cleveland), the Cowan Studios (Rocky River), the Dayton Art Institute and Society of Etchers, A loan exhibit of nationally known painters was shown. The results are credited to Mrs. Harriet Kirkpatrick, Art Director of the Fair...
Firpo. After receiving a note from Manhattan's police department protesting that his wild bull automobile was stampeding traffic, Firpo moved across the Canadian border and showed off in Montreal. Thence he journeyed to ponder the tossing waters of Niagara; thence to Cleveland about automobiles, his business side line; thence to New York again, to shut his desk and embark with friends for a pugilistic grand tour of South America, commencing at Lima, Peru...
Married. Miss Geneva Mitchell, famed chorus girl, to Jack Hayes, theatrical publicity agent, in Cleveland. Her first marriage, to Robert Savage, wealthy Yale student, was annulled last year. Her mother stated that...
John D. Rockfeller: "On the 63rd anniversary of my first job (in a Cleveland commission house), said I: 'But for the discipline I got in those three and a half years I might now amount to nothing...