Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval air unit at Yale and Mr. Ingalls was that unit's bright particular flower. Over seas Mr. Ingalls was attached to an English squadron over which...
...Peck of Western, Reserve University, who were supporting the negative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the principle of complete freedom of speech on political and economic grounds is sound" won a judge's decision, rendered by W. J. Butler 2L, over Alan Green and Arthur Fiske of the Cleveland institution, who had as their colleague A. L. Raffa ocC. The audience, however, favored the affirmative orators by a 4 to 2 score...
...near the desk of Publisher Hadden. Lord Northchffe, indomitable, founded the London Daily Mail (now nearly 2,000,000 daily circulation), owned the London Times and scores of other publications, signed himself N like Napoleon. *Total paid in: $86,000. Largest subscriber, Mrs. William L. Harkness of Manhattan and Cleveland. First Board of Directors: Robert A. Chambers, Henry P. Davison, William V. Griffin, all of New York, William T. Hincks of Bridgeport, Conn.-besides Messrs. Hadden and Luce. Counsel: Judge Robert L. Luce of Manhattan...
...attended the Cleveland School of Art and then one day met the Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...
...York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Chesapeake & Ohio. Like spheres of influence of the Great Powers are the territories of the Great Railroads. As the Great Powers had their colonies, so the Great Railroads have their controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when a rival seeks to acquire some little road which to the outsider might appear...