Word: clevelanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Martin Leo Sweeney of Cleveland, Ohio: "When this Administration can spend . . . almost $300,000 or more to entertain a British King and Queen next month, I think I can afford to vote this extra help for my office...
Last time Alexander Fell Whitney was heard of, John Lewis nominated him to head up U. S. Labor when & if C. I. O. and A. F. of L. reunite. Last week in Cleveland able, white-topped Mr. Whitney showed how he runs his own Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...were closed to outsiders including the press. President Whitney forbade the 975 delegates to talk out of meeting, could & would oust any who disobeyed. The few who might have been inclined to do so remembered what happened to two uppity brothers in 1935: Brother Whitney, who is one of Cleveland's leading citizens, had police lock up the pair for the duration of the convention...
What happened last week was unique in recent Brotherhood history. To the astonishment and official indignation of the convention Cleveland newspapers published news which Alexander Whitney did not consider fit to print. They got it from Secretary-Treasurer George W. Anderson. He published a pamphlet charging that in the eleven years since President Whitney took office, B.R.T. had paid in salaries $995,542.74 more than in the ten preceding years. President Whitney's friend, T. B. Eilers, who is in charge of union insurance sales to members, was shown to have collected $429,288 "'in commissions" and expenses...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. was in Cleveland and its president had virtually quit flying. From that plant came the first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle...