Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express my gratitude to you on behalf of the government for the fidelity and energy with which you have prosecuted these cases." Actions still pending against Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall were to be single-handled by Lawyer Roberts' special colleague lawyer, Atlee Pomerene of Cleveland...
Died. Judge Thomas P. Riley, 53, of Maiden, Mass., onetime campaign manager for Woodrow Wilson, onetime defeated opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the Lieutenant-Governorship of Massachusetts; of pneumonia; in Cleveland, where he had been campaigning for Alfred E. Smith. It was Judge Riley, with Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, who secured the New England vote for Governor Smith in the Houston convention...
...hawk last week perched on the balcony outside the Van Sweringen brothers' private suite on the 34th floor of their high Cleveland Terminal Tower Building. The hawk twisted his head and coldly looked far down at the pigeons strutting, the sparrows hopping on Cleveland's Public Square. They pecked away at crumbs, peanuts, popcorn. The hawk turned his head away. He darted it down at what one of his claws held, a strange bird killed at the tower while migrating southward for winter...
...situation, however, is useful to ornithology. From the balcony Harold Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...
Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...