Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rawboned Mr. Dykstra (first syllable as in dike), who stands 6 ft. 3¾ in. and weighs just 200 lb., was born 54 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. He graduated from the University of Iowa, studied two-and-a-half years at the University of Chicago but did not take a Ph.D. After teaching political science at Ohio State and the University of Kansas, he became executive secretary of the Cleveland Civic League in 1918. That work appealed to him so much that he spent four years with similar organizations...
...glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive violence. Father Joseph Lynch, S. J., of Fordham University guessed last week that rise & fall of the Ohio River flood may have accelerated the snap-back process. Father Joseph Sebastian Joliat, S. J., of Cleveland's John Carroll University disagreed with him, pointed out that Ohio has had seven tremors attributable to postglacial snap-backs since...
...Cleveland, Police Captain Chester Burnett began a traffic law enforcement drive by tagging 50 motorists who had parked illegally in front of his precinct station...
...Juniors are: Francis G. Blake, Jr., of New Haven, Conn.; John L. Dampeer, of Cleveland; Richard T. Davis, of Medford; Alan S. Geismer, of Cleveland; John A. Moore, of Clayton, Missouri; Arthur H. Schlesinger, Jr., of Cambridge; A. Judson Wells, Jr., of Highland Park, Illinois; and Theodore H. White, of Dorchester...
...sold $2,453,000,000 worth of goods, 8% more than the year before. From foreigners the U. S. bought goods worth $2,419,000,000, an increase of nearly 20%. Result was the smallest balance in favor of the U. S. since the days of Grover Cleveland ($34,000,000 as against $236,000,000 in 1935). Furthermore, the U. S. paid out $60,000,000 more in freight and shipping charges than it took in, the net of remittances was against the U. S. by $138,000,000, and U. S. tourists spent $373,000,000 more abroad...