Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
Ayres-Three weeks ago Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, much-touted economist of Cleveland Trust Co., told a convention of his fellows at Atlantic City that the "key log" of the economic jam was the public utility situation (TIME, Jan. 10). Other reasons for the present depression, continued Economist Ayres, which he last week gave Senator Byrnes, included excessive inventories last spring, rising prices due to rearmament programs abroad, fears of labor difficulties, possibly the bonus payment in 1936, possibly some fear of inflation. Mr. Ayres's predictions: that the depression should reach bottom in the first half...
...President Roosevelt's attack on dictatorships in his opening message to Congress. So last week Der Angriff, organ of the regimented German Labor Front, solemnly reported in a dispatch from the U. S.: "Lack of officially organized aid for the needy has resulted in frightful misery. In Cleveland 65,000 are in dire need. Numerous hungry persons sit crying, often with small children, in the municipal welfare bureaus begging for food...
Actually in Cleveland during the first six days of the New Year 65,000 people on the relief rolls went without food and clothing orders. This hardship, which caused one reliefer to commit suicide, was due, as Cleveland's Mayor Harold H. Burton explained, to the "inexcusable failure of the State of Ohio" to pass a relief act before the year...
...Dropped from U. S. Olympic team for breaking training rules on the way to the 1936 Olympic Games, she made $30,000 swimming in Showman Billy Rose's Cleveland Exposition last summer. In November she and Rose said they would marry as soon as they could get divorces, she from Crooner Art Jarrett, he from Comedienne Fanny Brice. Of diminutive, 36-year-old Billy, said Eleanor: "He's got everything Robert Taylor...