Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAdoo was a messenger, clerk, handyman, worked his way during his three years at the University of Tennessee. While he was reading law in Chattanooga, he got into politics as an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1884. He cast his first vote for Grover Cleveland, was admitted to the bar just after his 21st birthday. More businessman than lawyer, he lost his shirt trying to electrify the Knoxville Street Railroad system, mortgaged his wife's Chattanooga house for $5,000 and moved to New York. There he prospered mightily as organizer and president...
...purchases of contemporary art. Disinterested citizens last week were able to debate this policy while doubting not at all the "lasting value" of the cat, an image of the Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...
...monoplane which Howard Hughes flew when he established his 1936 U. S. cross-country record (9 hr. 26 min. 10 sec.). With his new 225-m.p.h. plane, Publisher Macfadden, who has had 1,100 hours of solo flying, promises he will compete for the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles to Cleveland, Sept...
Lawyers, the most articulate group in the U. S. Business community, have long been leading critics (partly pro, but mostly con) of the New Deal. Last week about 5,000 of the country's 175,000 lawyers attended the annual convention of the American Bar Association in Cleveland. At the opening session, the A. B. A.'s outgoing president. Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, dwelt on "the outstanding legal development of the 20th Century" - the Federal Government's quasi-judicial administrative agencies, such as the Securities & Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board...
...Took first step under the Natural Gas Act of 1938 to lower gas rates. The Federal Power Commission gave Hope Natural Gas Co. of West Virginia 30 days to answer complaints that it was charging too much for gas in Cleveland...