Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover thinks he is Grover Cleveland, he has never read the story of that administration. Mr. Cleveland went down fighting for sound, progressive principles; the temper of the country, not his record, was responsible for his defeat. Mr. Hoover, on the other hand, failed to take sufficiently constructive action to halt the depression; the temper of the country and his record combined to beat...
...born in Geneva in 1909. Her first ambition was to be an Alpinist. She never thought of being an artist until at the age of 11 she suddenly began illustrating "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat." Father Bloch, delighted, bought her a paint box, later sent her to the Cleveland School of Art. In Europe she first studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, then painted at the Beaux Arts, felt acutely uncomfortable with both. It was only when she went to Rome that she saw what she really wanted to do, in the gigantic frescoes of the Vatican and St. Peter...
...last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
When J. P. Morgan & Co. put the Van Sweringen rail and real estate empire on the auction block last fortnight, it was knocked down to Midamerica Corp., the Cleveland bachelors' new top holding company, for $3,121.000 (TIME, Oct. 7).* Though they are still well able to maintain checking accounts, Messrs. Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen needed help to buy back control of their vast possessions which had been taken over by the Morgan banking group for nonpayment of principal & interest on some $50,000,000 of notes. Last week Wall Street still buzzed with gossip about...
...Cleveland's George Ashley Tomlinson is 69, short, powerful, heavy-featured and skeptical of the old saw that a man never succeeds unless he likes his work. Son of a small-town Michigan newspaper publisher, he was shipped off to a Wyoming ranch as a boy to punch cattle and fight Indians. Later he was a newshawk, throwing up his job to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. While the Show was in Britain he rode in a command performance for Queen Victoria. After another turn at newspaper work, which landed him at the managing editor...