Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ousting of Communist members of the American Veterans Committee at its recent national convention in Cleveland will be the chief topic of discussion tonight as the ten-man Harvard delegation takes the stand for questions and explanation...
...students present elected A. Brooks Wilder '50 of Lowell House and Wheaton, Ill., as president. Robert K. Nesbit '51 of Kirkland House and Cleveland, Ohio, was chosen vice-president, and the next secretary will be Robin Esch '51 of Lowell House and Washington, D.C. The group's treasurer will be Charles Hughes '50 of Eliot House and New York city...
Retailers' worries were the customers' delights. In Cleveland, a $25 Thanksgiving dinner for eight was thrown in with every refrigerator bought from Sears, Roebuck & Co. In Chicago, washing machines were offered at $50 below list price. Manhattan stores trimmed prices of women's dresses, furs, shoes, gloves, millinery, hosiery from 25% to 50%. Even the carriage trade's Hattie Carnegie, who ordinarily does not stress prices, advertised a clearance sale of hats...
Your November 27 story regarding the AVC Convention in Cleveland contained . . . one gross error. Your article reported that 11 New York chapters of AVC were ousted for supporting Wallace's opposition to the Marshall Plan. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The chapters were suspended (not ousted) because they had voted to seat, on a local council, an AVC member who had previously been suspended for appearing on a program of the American Labor Party as a representative of AVC, in contraversion of AVC's firm policy of political neutrality. Neither the Marshall Plan (which we support...
...thousand votes can shift huge stacks of electoral votes from one column to the other. Twice since the Civil War this has meant that the man with a majority of popular votes has lost the election. Tilden beat Hayes by over 200,000 votes in 1876; yet he lost. Cleveland beat Harrison by over 100,000 votes in 1888; yet he lost. And in the 1948 election a few more votes for Dewey in two key states would have given the decision to the House--despite the fact that Truman had a 2,000,000 vote edge over Dewey...