Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American League bigwigs, following in the four-year-old tracks of the National League, granted the Cleveland and Philadelphia clubs permission to play seven home games apiece under lights next year.* Both leagues compromised on a uniform ball for 1939: an American League (thinner) covering with National League (five strands instead of four) stitching-the one extra strand supposedly giving the pitcher a better grip on the ball...
...been highly interested in music, especially Uncle Beryl Rubinstein, one of the country's leading pianists. Although it was not until his sophomore year in high school that Levin first took lessons, he had a 12-piece jazz band within a year and soon acquired a great reputation around Cleveland, his home city...
...high ranking scholar, Levin says that he "just took to it." In addition to informal playing, or "jamming with Bennie Goodman and Casa-Loma, he has worked out with some of the players from Count Basie's and Andy Kerk's orchestras. Every week Levin sends to the "cleveland News" a column called "Swing," which tells of the activities of the important bands in Ohio...
...dean of the M.I.T. School of Architecture will be Walter N. McCornack of Cleveland, nationally-known architect and housing authority, who replaces Dean William Emerson next fall...
...seats in the House, eight in the Senate, eleven Governorships ) than Democrats executed in 1930 when they won 55 new seats in Congress preparatory to turning out Herbert Hoover two years later. It was the greatest Congressional turnover since 1894, when the Democrats lost 116 seats midway of President Cleveland's second term. All this accomplishment left Republicans very definitely a minority party. Their chief triumph was that they were proved not extinct...