Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, Ohio...
...Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Toledo and many another...
...knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement that is hourly gaining force throughout the country...
...whose privilege and duty it was to notify Candidate Willis how Cleveland felt, was not throaty Col. Thompson. It was a quiet, bald, astute, elderly person named Maurice Maschke, who for years, in his panelled study on the heights near Cleveland, has manipulated the clumsy fellows down in the city who call themselves politicians. Mr. Maschke is Ohio's National Republican Committeeman. When he wants to see the seeker or holder of an office, he is not above paying a call downtown, downstate or even down in Washington. In 1908, when Theodore E. Burton (now a Representative) was unexpectedly...
...engaged in a match against a combined team from New York and Detroit. Mr. Maschke's team lost, 27 boards to 25. But last June, Mr. Maschke and his three mates on the Cleveland Whist Club team won the U. S. auction bridge championship, at a tournament held in Hanover...