Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real oldtime political debate? distinguished Representative Theodore Elijah Burton for the Republican side, opposed by distinguished Lawyer Newton Diehl Baker. Wilsonian War Secretary, last week in their home town of Cleveland. "Tammany . . . Tweed . . . traitorous," said Mr. Burton. "Fall, Sinclair, Denby, Daugherty, Forbes . . . Boss Vare . . . Will Hay's," retorted Mr. Baker...
Thrifty v. Shifty. Most blistering in his attack on the stockmarket was Col. Leonard Porter Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co. To the convening bankers he said...
...Tabor, Master of the National Grange (membership, 800,000 farmers). President J. J. Phoenix of the National Knitted Outerwear Association, woolens, manufacturer of Delavan, Wis. He wrote to Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt (q.v.,p. 12): " . . . The writer personally lost one-third of his entire capital during the second Cleveland administration. . . . He was also in business in 1913. . . . Had not the War intervened, the United States would have experienced a worse condition than in 1894. ... It is the sincere wish of the writer and this industry that your hopes of success may be blasted." Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, Amos Alonzo...
Because whatever Mr. Young says is heeded by businessmen, the street car operators at Cleveland last week hoped to get all their communities to permit fares increased to between 8 and 11? a ride...
...American Electric Railway Association has made its meeting & exposition at Cleveland a yearly affair. One attraction is that the Cleveland Railway Co. has the privilege of raising (or lowering) fares to provide ample money for dividends on its capital stock and for experiments in street railway operations. Practically every other company in the country is bound by franchise always to charge fixed fares. Cleveland thus is the inspiration and hope of such companies...