Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distress Mr. Martin telephoned C. I. O. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray, the overseers installed by John Lewis to suppress factionalism in U. A. W. They went to Detroit, last week got the board to call a special convention for March 20 in Cleveland. Object: to let the rank & file end the row by throwing out one faction or the other...
Oldtime Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, 51, last year chosen by the Baseball Writers Association to join the 13 immortals in baseball's Hall of Fame, was discovered sharing the bill with "Sealo -Half Boy, Half Seal" and "Professor Heckler's Trained Flea Circus" in a Manhattan nickel museum...
Propaganda Men. The propaganda content in this tonnage of Government publicity usually runs at the proportion of less than one gram per pound. Occasionally it assays much higher. Last February the Bituminous Coal Commission issued one famous release in which a Cleveland city official was described as "coloring deeply" when replying to a Commissioner's question at a hearing. Washington correspondents stirred up such a row that the author of the release was fired...
Applicants should present in writing to H-34 Winthrop House as much information about themselves as possible, including grades, activities, budget, and need. Other members of the Council Scholarship Committee who may be contacted are Cleveland Amory '39, Morton G. Freed '39, and Phil C. Neal...
...shrewd old "F. A.," with Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton and Oil Tycoon Edgar B. Davis, formed Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., a personal holding company, one of whose assets was a big block of Goodyear Tire & Rubber common. Cyrus Eaton presently took this Goodyear stock and put it in a new corporation known as Goodyear Shares, Inc., in which F. A. had an equity. In 1930, spotting trouble ahead for Goodyear, he swapped this equity for 64,554 shares of U. S. Rubber Co. common. Bulk of this latter stock, which was charged off to him at $18 a share, next...