Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory over Baltimore was No. 9 for Albert & Co., with five games left-two with the undefeated Cleveland Browns...
...hundreds of Democrats had infiltrated into the College. A poll showed that Blaine was the favorite, but only by 483 to 463. The Cleveland and Hendricks backers did not look forward to marching in a traditional Republican parade, so they asked the entire College to rally for Cleveland. The matter was submitted to a vote, and tradition won out; the College voted 569 to 363 to march Republican. This parade was probably the most glorious in College history. Cambridge Police marched in front, followed by a Fife and Drum Corps, followed by the entire cheering, chanting student body, Democrats...
...came the first clear indication that Republicanism was not so rampant in the Faculty and Graduate Schools as in the College. Harrison swept the entire University, 1114 to 851, and the College, 674 to 458, but Cleveland took the Graduate Schools, and the Faculty voted 52 to 6 for the Democrat...
...Both Congress into an effectively political issue, he used that issue for all it was worth. He called the Republicans in Congress "errand boys of Big Business," declared that lobbyists pulled the strings and the people got stung. He boasted: "I vetoed more bills than any President except Grover Cleveland-if I hadn't been there to protect you, you would be in a very great fix by this time...
After declining steadily for a week, livestock prices hit their lowest point in more than four months. The cave-in loosened the prop under retail prices. Most Eastern food chains promptly slashed as much as 19% off some pork prices, 35% off beef. Stores in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and points west followed suit, in some cases with even bigger slashes. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food price index dropped to its lowest point in 14 months...