Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland are realizing that Donnybrook Fair was just an old maids' tea party: we're in the throes of another Legion roughhouse. The maudlin, impudent, vicious, and obscene nuisances being committed here are nothing short of a national disgrace. From disinterested Cleveland citizens I have heard only strong disapproval and condemnation...
...Cleveland, Ohio...
...Cleveland two nights later, in huge Public Hall, where he was nominated last June. Nominee Landon renewed his charges of waste, extravagance, secrecy and political corruption in the administration of relief (see p. 19). Best crack: "On Jan. 3, 1934, the President told Congress: 'If we maintain the course I have outlined, we can confidently look forward to greater employment and a diminution of relief expenses.' We did maintain the course he outlined, but did we get any reduction of relief expenses? We did not. At present the Administration is spending in the name of relief...
Unappeased by denials, counter-charges and figures, Nominee Landon cried at Cleveland that night: "Everybody knows there is too much politics in relief. This has become a national scandal. The evidence of this playing of politics has been supported by documented and sworn testimony. . . . This probably explains why the Administration has deliberately kept the country in the dark...
Before the Southwest Clinical Society Conference in Kansas City, Cleveland's famed Surgeon George Washington Crile told how he & friends killed 220 different animals in Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis...