Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of the U. S. could only admit, shamefacedly, that prisoners in many U. S. city jails are shamefully underfed by profiteering keepers. For example, such a state of affairs was exposed, last year, in the "Model City," Cleveland...
...Police Lieut. Samuel Graham, muscular Pittsburgher, won the qualifying medal and was put out in the second round by a left-handed carpenter from Washington. But Carl F. Kauffmann, 32, dour-faced clerk, also of Pittsburgh, retained the championship which he won last year by defeating Philip Ogden of Cleveland in the finals...
Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio...
...Cried Charles Edwin Mitchell, president of the National City Bank: "It is a dangerous and unhealthy trend." Said able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland Trust Co.: "Clearly a reform is needed in New York banking practice." Screamed the financial writers, sensationally: "Boot leg Loans! Outlaw Banking!" Depressed, discouraged, the bond market fell to 98.29, the year's new low. But the stockmarket, still optimistic, held its own, advanced a little...
...Engaged. Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., 23, Manhattan scion, grandson of the late Henry H. Rogers, famed Standard Oilman; to Virginia Lincoln, Cleveland physician's daughter...