Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Telegraph and has been for some time. It was for this paper, which I represent in the U. S., that he reported the maiden trip of the Queen Mary and it is on behalf of the Daily Telegraph that he is attending the Republican and Democratic Conventions at Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively...
Arriving in Little Rock at 5:30 p. m., the President was motored directly to its unfinished Centennial Stadium, found it pack-jammed with 25,000 people. Facing microphones which carried his voice over the same nationwide hookups which were to broadcast the words of Herbert Hoover at Cleveland an hour later, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the first of a series of set speeches using the events of long-dead history as parables on current politics...
...Cleveland's cavernous Public Hall, in the last dark row beneath the overhanging balcony, a lonely Cincinnatian last week called to those seated in front of him: "If it wasn't for you folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
...Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down...
...left school in the seventh grade when his father died. A kindly teacher pieced out Marlen's book learning after hours, "graduated" him in her front parlor. At 15 he took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought and dropped by a hoodlum politician. During...