Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to permit the export of a promised shipment of helium* for use in German dirigibles. As this act was recalled to Nazi minds last month by the reshipment of 200 empty steel bottles from Houston, Texas to Germany, Secretary Ickes bobbed up again with a speech before the Cleveland Zionist Society. Title: "Esau, the Hairy Man." Excerpts...
...expense account turned in by the President's ten-man junket to study European marketing co operatives. More recently Mr. Elliott refused to O. K. expenditures for AAA's scheme to pay growers $10 a bale for cotton surrendered for loans, termed a Navy contract with Cleveland's Wellman Engineering Co. "illegal," watched complacently from the sidelines as three of his accountants last November filled the TV A investigating committee with unflattering accounts of TVA accounting practices...
Cassandra was always right, but nobody believed her. A great many people, however, believe Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., who last year predicted that the bottom of Depression II would come in the first half of 1938. Last week tycoonry's favorite seer gave his followers a lavish exhibition of his powers by predicting practically everything for the coming year except the dew point in Wall Street at midnight on Friday, June 23. Excerpts...
Growing mushrooms in a subterranean room on his Cleveland estate is the hobby of pudgy, sleepy-eyed Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime Treasurer of the U. S. (1912-13) and currently president of Fidelity Investment Association. Old Financier Thompson may soon have more time for his mushrooms, for last week SEC asked a Federal judge in Detroit for injunctions whose effect might put Fidelity out of existence "as a fraud and deceit...
...last week slid a special train full of U. S. Steel Corp. bigwigs. Hero of the day was six-foot, grey-thatched William Adolf Irvin, onetime president. The train was named the "Irvin Works Special" and it was chuffing toward Pittsburgh (as were specials from Chicago and Cleveland) for the inauguration of Big Steel's Irvin Works, "finest mill man yet has built...