Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this unexpected turning point in her life, Swimmer Holm turned professional, did a Tarzan movie with Olympic Decathlon Champion Glenn Morris (which proved that she might have listened more attentively to Mrs. Dillon), made more money than she had ever seen before. She met Billy Rose at the 1937 Cleveland Aquacade, where her curvesome capers pleased him as well as the customers...
Last week in Cleveland, Detroit and Pontiac, Mich., striking General Motors autoworkers fought police and non-strikers, together with their foes counted upwards of 100 casualties (but no dead). Meantime, in conference rooms at Detroit, the war was fought and at last ended by G. M.'s massive President William S. Knudsen, C. I. O.'s tiny Walter Reuther...
This week's chapter of the strike began with violence as 3,000 pickets battled 450 police and 30 firemen at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. As 35 people were carted to hospitals, Strikeleader Joseph Bagano said: "We will continue to throw stones, turn over cars and resist these scabs until they get religion and stay home where they belong...
...world's fair of poultry. When the Government began saying no, he organized in 1921 the first world's poultry fair at The Hague. Last week, backed by a $100,000 Federal subsidy, the seventh World's Poultry Congress opened in the great halls of Cleveland's 1936-37 Great Lakes Exposition (left standing for the occasion). It was the biggest convention to be held in the U.S. this year, and Professor Rice was its chairman...
...delegates from 45 foreign nations and poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week...