Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleveland, the Plain Dealer has been churning up evidence of similar problems. Two weeks ago, four policemen-including a lieutenant and a sergeant-were indicted on various charges. A nine-member citizens' committee has been named to investigate the police force formally...
...book. The Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan, who never went far enough, for Baum, towards removing the farmer from his "cross of gold." The Wicked Witch of the West, then as now, is the Republican party. And the Wizard of Oz is none other than Grover Cleveland, who promised free silver and then told his supporters to wait. The details can be filled in cleverly enough to almost convince you Paul is dead. It's too bad the Dunster House Drama Society didn't stage a revisionist Wizard of Oz that would have brought out these original meanings explicitly...
...bubble, if indeed it had ever existed, soon collapsed. The voters of Cleveland decisively threw Calkins off the School Board and Harvard replaced Pusey with President Bok, a man who needed no public relations spokesman. Professors Blum and Slichter, Bok, and Treasurer George Putnam all became new faces on the Corporation. Perhaps Harvard and Cleveland, like the rest of the country, was tired of dynamic and glamorous men; more likely the Calkins boomlet reflected few of Calkin's real desires...
Although one of the reasons given for Calkins's election to the Corporation in 1968 was a desire to have representation from the Midwest, Calkins actually grew up in Newton and attended Exeter before coming to Harvard. The decision to settle in Cleveland, Calkins admits, was a calculated one. "I decided to practice law in a large representative city such as Cleveland on the hunch that in this way I could find effective and independent involvement with whatever turned out to be the action and passion of our time," he wrote in his class's 25th reunion report...
...conposed of Francis H. Burr '35, a partner in the prestigious Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, who has served since 1954; Nickerson, director and former chairman of the board of the Mobil Oil Corp., who has been a member since 1965; Hugh Calkins '45, a prominent Cleveland lawyer, appointed in 1968; Blum, a History professor, and Slichter, a Physics professor; in addition to President Bok and Treasurer George Putnam...