Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible point of information, I submit that the crowd witnessing Cleveland', defeat in the fifth game of the 1948 Work Series was not "the largest crowd (86,288 to watch a baseball game anywhere, any time" [TIME...
Near great: Theodore Roosevelt, Cleveland, John Adams and Polk. Average: John Quincy Adams, Monroe, Hayes, Madison, Van Buren, Taft, Arthur, McKinley, Johnson, Hoover, Benjamin Harrison. Below average: Tyler, Coolidge, Fillmore, Taylor, Buchanan and Pierce. Failures: Grant and Harding, both of whose administrations were marked by corruption...
ILLINOIS. Adlai Stevenson, 48, quietly able socialite lawyer, former United Nations delegate, grandson and namesake of Cleveland's Vice President, dethroned the Republicans' two-term Governor Dwight Green, whose administration he had assailed as rotten with graft and corruption...
OHIO. Tall, curly-haired, able Democrat Frank Lausche, 52, admired by both Democrats and Republicans for his record as Cleveland's mayor (1941-44) and governor (1945-46), evened his score against Republican Governor Thomas Herbert, who had defeated Lausche in the 1946 Republican sweep. Lausche, who had had little to do with organization Democrats, ran far ahead of Harry Truman...
Powell, a Senior, comes from Lyndhurst, Ohio, where he played football at Cleveland Heights High School. Greenidge went to New Prep School and lives in Chatham...