Word: cleveland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mail, that didn't stop her either. Nothing could. She talked on street corners and at over 100 rallies. Eventually, Norma Wulff, the mother of two grown daughters, talked herself into a seat on the school board. Four years ago she became the first woman president of Cleveland's school board...
...forever popping up in one or another of Cleveland's 151 schools, whirling through classrooms, doggedly inspecting furnaces and washrooms, machine-gunning questions at janitors and principals. She has plumped for better schools and playgrounds, demanded higher wages for school employees, secured 180,000 signatures to a petition for lower streetcar fares for schoolchildren, camped in newspaper offices until editors promised help. She and her board got more money for their schools than any before them. They upped teachers' salaries $1,200 a year, established free dental clinics in schools, set up a veterans' education program...
...general practitioner feels, with some justice, that he is put-upon. Compared to the specialist, he is overworked, underpaid and underrated. Last week in Cleveland the American Medical Association tried to make the general practitioner more contented with...
...A.M.A. is aware that it will take more than medals to solve the family doctor's problems. In Cleveland last week, a few family doctors spoke their minds. Said a Grand Rapids, Mich, doctor: "At present, the general practitioner can't even remove tonsils in a hospital. He has become a glorified orderly." Said a Salt Lake County, Utah, doctor: "The general practice man is tired of being a reference bureau for the specialist...
Harry Ferguson Inc. tried to make its own tractors. The company bought a Cleveland factory, but the plan fell through. Nobody wanted to put up the $8 million capital he needed. As Dearborn Motors took over Ferguson's suppliers and dealers, the Ferguson company began to fall apart...