Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Americans digging, and after we deciphered the headline we dropped our shovels and started whooping and dancing and hugging each other and rolling in the dirt. The blight was gone. But when the elation had passed, one of us--I think it was an accountant's son from Cleveland--looked at each of the others soberly and said, "What are we celebrating? The country has fallen apart...
...said, was there anything improper about the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund's turning over $18 million to the Georgia bank's trust department during the presidential primary campaign. Lance said the negotiations with the Teamsters had been handled by the bank's former chairman, King Cleveland. Added he: "It was the kind of business that an aggressive trust department would go after, and I saw nothing wrong with our being involved in trying to attract that business...
...moral matters, few politicians match the fervor of Cleveland's three-term Republican mayor, Ralph J. Perk, 63. Last month he had 70 city sanitation workers deliver questionnaires on pornography to 260,000 local households. Hizzoner's avowed aim: to establish a community standard on obscenity, in line with the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the need for local criteria for jury decisions in obscenity cases...
Most professional pollsters, jurists and prosecutors in Cleveland dismiss Perk's poll as far less than objective. Among other things, the mayor prefaced his questionnaire with a plea "to have evidence to present in court which will make it unlawful to peddle obscene material in Cleveland." Perk, not so incidentally, plans to run for re-election in November...
Arthur Stupay, a Cleveland broker and former multinational executive who was not at the seminar, offers a fuller defense. Says he: "American businessmen in some ways are more sophisticated in managing foreign operations than the State Department. U.S. businessmen live longer in a country and know the customs and culture more intimately than State Department people." If businessmen do not ask the Government for help when they get into trouble abroad, Stupay adds, it is because "they have contacts that they think are better informed...