Word: cleveland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affairs of the world at present seem to be in a hopeless jumble, but if well-informed persons study them long enough, an understandable pattern is bound to appear. Authoritative information, however, is a prerequisite to this, and magazines like TIME and institutions like the Cleveland Council on World Affairs are indispensable...
...alert news and sports coverage, big, sprawling Mutual has only six or seven programs worth the time of day or night. Ed knows his weakness: "Programs will be our No. 1 objective this year." He means "programs with that commercial aroma." Ed once directed Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra not to play over Mutual "for art's sake-play simple, melodic things for the millions...
...casual-yet-clipped tones in which Allport delivers these lectures fascinate those who like to classify accents, and in fact mirror much of his past. He was born in Indiana in 1897, went to school in Cleveland, got his AB from Harvard in 1919, and did graduate work in German universities before accepting a teaching job at Roberts College, in Istanbul. The classes at Roberts were conducted in English, but no one could understand him unless he spoke a brand called "Standard London" English. Learning to mouth this dialect on pain of being incomprehensible resulted in his present, pleasant...
Help for Alleghany. Popular champion that he was, Bob Young also had his hands on a greater potential monopoly than any other railroader. He got his hands on it when he bought control of Alleghany Corp. in 1937. This fantastic financial Humpty Dumpty, put together by Cleveland's famed Van Sweringen brothers, O.P. and M.J., was one of the worst examples of giddy railroad financing of the '20s. After it crashed in 1932, no one thought it could ever be put together again...
...Newport, in a 40-room Tudor-style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels in his private car. His Cleveland office is a Kubla Khanish relic of the Van Sweringens. But his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building are small and unlisted on the building directory. He does not need a large office because "I carry the business in my head...