Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since August 1933, John Wiley Hill and Donald Snow Knowlton, heads of a Cleveland publicity firm, have received $323,000 from the American Iron and Steel Institute and individual Little Steel companies. The La Follette committee produced "personal and confidential" documents revealing the efforts of Edgar S. Bowerfind, Hill & Knowlton representative in Birmingham, Ala., to make local newspapers see the rectitude of Republic Steel Corp.'s position on labor problems. The technique, involving no innovations, consisted of visits to local editors and pressure "judiciously exerted" through advertisers...
...pressure difference would create a sort of hill and valley in the lake surface, and the big wave with its followers would result from the water's effort to resume a horizontal surface. A similar seiche, subsequently described scientifically in Naval Institute Proceedings, rose in Lake Erie off Cleveland some years ago, caused several deaths...
...Lutheran pastors in the U. S. is Rev. Dr. Arthur Carl Piepkorn, 29, who graduated from Concordia College in Milwaukee, Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, took a Ph.D. at University of Chicago, was ordained to the ministry-all before he was 23. Last autumn Dr. Piepkorn was called to Cleveland's substantial, suburban Faith Lutheran Church. Last week he and his 600 parishioners promulgated a set of rules based on his belief that "a church wedding is a Christian religious service...
...with their grants, in each case 45% of the cost of the proposed new plants: Saranac Lake, N. Y., $225,000; Mount Pleasant, Mich., $218,000; Covington, Va., $181,636: Galax, Va., $129,000; Caruthersville, Mo., $79,000; Cleveland, Okla., $63,000; Okmulgee, Okla., $406,800; Columbus, Miss., $126,000 plus a loan of $155,000; Meridian, Miss., $638,182 plus a loan of $780,000; Cuero, Tex., $101,000: Gonzales, Tex., $78,000; San Antonio, Tex., $2,770,000; Texarkana, Tex., $245,000 plus a loan of $300,000; Weslaco, Tex., $94,500; Wharton, Tex., $90,000; Wichita Falls...
...riots, peanut fights, screams and free-for-alls broke out when subtitles were too long. The fun lasted until the operator switched on the lights and bawled: "Shut up, you brats, or I'll throw you all out." Ruth and Eileen never lost their love for it. In Cleveland, they sat through Theda Bara and Wally Reid pictures, holding their hats before their eyes at the sad parts, weeping copiously. They were getting to be big girls, having their teeth straightened, when Rudolph Valentino appeared to pale all previous movie experiences...