Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers of the club were elected last night and include Bruce Foster '39 and Cleveland Amory '39, co-presidents, Albert Stickney, Jr. '38, vice-president, William A. Burnham '38, secretary, and Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, treasurer...
Anyone who throws a human corpse into the waters around Cleveland can be fined $50, sent to the workhouse for 30 days for violation of a health ordinance. More than likely, anyone who thus polluted Cleveland's waters would be guilty of murder too, would therefore be prosecuted under Ohio's murder statutes instead of Cleveland's health ordinance. Nevertheless, last week when the corpse of a woman, from which the head, arms and legs had been expertly cut, was found in the shallow waters of Lake Erie at Cleveland, police announced that they could use nothing...
...Cleveland's police did not make this startling announcement out of callousness, nor were they taking lightly the atrocious murder. They made their statement apparently in desperation, on the slim chance that the butcher-murderer would show himself when he learned that his punishment would be so light. Reason for their desperation was that last week's dismembered body was the eighth that had been found in Cleveland since September 1934, when Torso No. 1, also that of an unknown female, similarly butchered, was found at the same spot. The other six-five males, one female-all dismembered...
...began to have trouble. William Andrews Clark Jr., who had supported the orchestra for 14 years, announced he could do so only one more season (TIME. Oct. 30, 1933). The directors thought a change of conductors might help ticket sales and engaged German Otto Klemperer. Artur Rodzinski went to Cleveland to become the second conductor that city's orchestra ever had.* Rodzinski showed himself conscientious as well as brilliant. Besides building up the audience for his regular symphony series, Rodzinski added opera to his schedule and made his Wagnerian performances famous. People came from 40 cities to hear...
...Nicolai Sokoloff had led the Cleveland Orchestra since its founding...