Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chippies. Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...vice president and designer, W. J. Muller, is an engineer with the Edward G. Budd Manfacturing Co. (auto bodies), and one of the directors is Vice President Frederick W. Gardner of Gardner Motor Co., Inc. This personnel, coupled with the announcement that the car will be built in Cleveland and in St. Louis plants, resulted in the surmise that the "plants" are the old Cleveland-Chandler plant (recently bought by Hupp) in Cleveland and the Gardner plant in St. Louis, and that experimental Ruxtons are being built at the Budd Philadelphia works. The Budd company has been announced as official...
...Reverend Dilworth Lupton of the First Unitarian Church in Cleveland. Ohio, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...
...refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal Co.; by 1912 he was sales manager. Soon he left Pittsburgh Coal Co., founded Cleveland & Western Coal Co. By 1926 his coal company, now North American Coal Corp.. was world's largest producer of tonnage...
...half-century ago, in the same year that the late E. W. Scripps was establishing the first of his chain, the Cleveland Press, Norman Edward Mack, a Canadian country boy who had learned about advertising in Chicago, was establishing the Times in Buffalo. At first it was a Sunday paper only. In 1883, he made it a daily. It served him well, and he it, during a career of which the high mark was the Mack chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (1908). Upon selling out to Scripps-Howard, Mr. Mack, now 70, has retired...