Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts for showings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and England, the collection included sculptures in terra cotta and enamel by the artists who have revived ceramics as a fine art in the U. S.-Waylande Gregory of Metuchen, N. J., Henry Varnum Poor of New York, Cleveland's Russell Barnett Aitken, whose Europa, a jolly maiden atop a jolly, ogling bull, well illustrated the fresh, light-hearted tendency of this medium...
First permanent U. S. symphony to be maintained the year around by a broadcasting company. NBC's orchestra will be drilled for the next month by Rodzinski, commuting between Manhattan and Cleveland, where this week he opens the 20th season of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rodzinski and Pierre Monteux will conduct three NBC concerts apiece before Toscanini's arrival. The 92 men of the orchestra were chosen from among 700 applicants, to the concern of at least one orchestra-the Detroit Symphony, which is losing five...
Until his death in 1888 Henry Bergh stumped the U. S. lecturing on humanitarianism, urging others to set up their own local organizations. In 1877 John G. Shortall, president of the Illinois Humane Society, called a meeting in Cleveland to co-ordinate those organizations, formed the American Humane Association. Last week the American Humane Society held its 50th anniversary meeting in Milwaukee, Wis., and did honor to Henry Bergh...
Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
...business of peddling propaganda almost since he could walk. His first work as a boy was selling newspapers. He taught school for a year after graduation from Ohio State University but dropped that to write advertising copy for a Columbus department store. Working as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he asked for the assignment to cover education, within a year shifted the city's newsorgans' attention from political squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system. He was the chief witness against Eugene...