Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most vetoing President was Grover Cleveland, who wrote 350, had only two overridden. Most overridden President was Andrew Johnson, who had 15 vetoes beaten. Records of recent Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, vetoes 33, overridden six; Warren Gamaliel Harding, vetoes five, overridden none; Calvin Coolidge, vetoes 20, overridden four; Herbert Hoover, vetoes 33, overridden three; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, vetoes 27, overridden...
...Lash was an exuberant, big-eared young art student in the Paris of Trilby and Bouguereau when Grover Cleveland was President of the U. S. In those fine days his father in San Francisco, a lace importer from Prague, had plenty of money. By 1892 Son Lee was a capable painter. Last week at Manhattan's Keppel Gallery Lee Lash at 70 had his first one-man show...
...Cleveland was defeated by Harrison. The McKinley tariff was passed and Father Lash's lace importing business was ruined. That finished young Lash's art career...
...Cleveland a gang of sharpers mailed out 30,000 letters with their names at the top of the usual list, thus insuring that if anyone made money on the chain they and they alone would make it. While authorities debated who should raid the gang's headquarters, the sharpers fled with 10,000 printed letters yet unmailed...
...Cleveland, when his five-year-old son butted into a quarrel between drunken Sam Lovelace and his wife, Father Lovelace threw a hatchet at the child. Baby Lovelace picked it up, returned the throw ten feet, fracturing his father's skull...