Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Cleveland returned last week to Paris aboard the chic, sumptuous S. S. Paris of the French Line. Landing at Havre, he was welcomed by the Mayor. Stepping off his train at the Gare St. Lazare, he was embraced by the Military Governor of Paris, sleek General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud. French throngs jammed the station, crying "Vive L'Ambassadeur! Vive Herrick!" Not often does France welcome so tried and sterling a friend as the U. S. Ambassador, Myron Timothy Herrick, who returned, last week, after a long, treacherous illness at his home in Cleveland, to Paris, his other home...
...largely due to a man from Cleveland that the panic did not extend so far that the whole population would have left [Paris] and the Germans marched in. ?Lord Northcliffe...
...rational adventures as peddling dinner bells and lightning rods. Grade school and high school he was encouraged to attend, but he had to teach country school and write newspaper fillers until he saved enough to begin working his way through Oberlin College. Followed three years of study in a Cleveland law office, and then, 24, he was admitted...
Upon resuming private life to attend to his interests, Mr. Herrick continued so politically potent that he twice declined to become Secretary of the Treasury, when offered that post by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Finally President Taft found a plum to tempt "the man from Cleveland." Would he accept the U. S. Ambassadorship to France? Mr. Herrick would?but for a strange, sound reason?at that time, 1912, his hobby was industrial credits, and he deemed the methods of the Credit Fonder of France the most advanced and worthy of study...
...skull which counts in the long run." Perhaps that is why numerologists, crystal-gazers, table-tippers, ouija-board-pushers, rhythmical dancers and all-round yogis stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their heads, concentrating on questions for the Water Master to answer...