Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disillusion was slow but sure. Priest Coughlin is bitter in his hatred of the Federal Reserve System and its banker-managers. By last March he was calling the New Deal a flat failure largely because "President Roosevelt has compromised with the money changers." His savage attack in Cleveland last week led observers to believe that the President would have to step to the Coughlin whip or count the Priest lost...
...already let it be known that he would be the sole head & front of the National Union. Last month he promised to "select, not elect" a guiding National Council of Twelve within ten days, to name the Union's Michigan State Committee at the Cleveland rally. He left Cleveland with neither a Michigan nor an Ohio committee named. He had decided meantime that the lieutenants of his political machine would, like Ku Klux Klansmen, be masked in secrecy. Reason, as explained by his Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Wrard: two friends had joined Huey Long at the Farmers' Holiday...
Wilbur Wright is dead, Orville is an embittered man of 64, Glenn Curtiss has been dead for nearly five years. But Grover Cleveland Loening, B. Sc., M. A., C. E., F. R. Ae. S., F. I. A. S. is at 47 a curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
Richly illustrated with old photographs, the book contains one of a strikingly handsome youth seated at the controls of an early (1913) Wright pusher. The young man was Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer. Popular as an amateur automobile racer and pioneer sportsman pilot, Early Bird Bergdoll was to become notorious four years later as the No. 1 U. S. draft-dodger during the War. Grover Cleveland Loening says Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's reason for evading the draft was that he was refused a commission in the U. S. Air Service...
Actually the only wiseman from Weirton was Mr. Weir. National Steel was merger of Steelman Weir's Weirton Steel (which lacked adequate ore reserves), Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. (which had them) and Great Lakes Steel, whose plants were right at the back door of the automobile industry. Mr. Weir's fellow wisemen were George Humphrey of M. A. Hanna, who is now National Steel's executive committee chairman, and George R. Fink of Great Lakes Steel,, who is now National's president...