Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia 8, Cleveland...
...Fireballs. Having thus tried Cleveland's spirit of hospitality, Witnesses turned to their own affairs. More than 2,500 of them, togged out in bathing suits, playsuits, pajamas or long underwear, waded hip deep into Lake Erie to be immersed backwards in its waters. (Baptizers, chilled by the four-hour ceremony, swigged from a bottle of port wine...
...turn of the century, it was an honor to pose for Sweden's Anders Zorn. Among the sitters for Etcher Zorn, a mountainous, walrus-mustached fellow, were: William Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Auguste Rodin, Paul Verlaine...
...were sold last week for about $2,250,000. The buyer: a syndicate which included Crooner Bing Crosby. The sale put Crosby in the same game, but not the same league, with his old running mate, Comedian Bob Hope, who two months ago bought a chunk of the Cleveland Indians...
Last week the bonus was knocked in the head again. Ohio's Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) common pleas court upheld a Republic stockholder's contention that the extra $51,000 was too much of a good thing, ordered bluff Tom Girdler to give it back. Judge Stanley L. Orr laid it on hot & heavy: the size of the bonus, said he, had depended not upon Girdler's devotion to duty, but upon the size of the profits that were left at the end of the year. "If such conduct were approved," he said, "directors might soon forget that...