Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only U.S. president to decline an honorary degree: Grover G. Cleveland, who said he was not worthy of a Harvard LL.D...
...least a dozen Mob leaders from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City have been put in prison since last January. Federal and state investigators are confident that the string of convictions will break down the discipline that the Mafia's commission had enforced. Created in the 1930s after a particularly bloody period of gang warfare, the commission divides turf among families, settles disputes and sanctions the slayings of those who break the rules. It now has several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head...
Toronto Blue Jays reliever Mark Eichhorn finished third with 23 points on a 5-3-1 basis, while outfielder Cory Snyder of the Cleveland Indians totaled 16. Danny Tartabull of the Seattle Mariners wound up with four points and Ruben Sierra of the Texas Rangers...
Though he hit just .240, Canseco tied for fourth in the league in home runs and was second in RBI to Cleveland's Joe Carter, who had 121. Canseco led the league in strikeouts, however, fanning 175 times...
...Harvard official claims that former Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk, who is due to go on trial today in Israel, is actually "Ivan the Terrible," the guard who operated the gas chambers that killed over one million Jews during the Second World...