Word: cuyahoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plagued by dysentery and mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...
After thinking it over, the Cuyahoga County chapter of the Gold Star Mothers of America passed an angry resolution: "Public display of such a figure is objectionable as obscene to many of our citizens . . ." Agreed the Catholic War Veterans: "[An] architectural abortion...
...Cleveland courtroom last week, Cleveland Press Reporter Leonard Hammer meekly answered a charge of contempt of court. Beside him stood Press Editor Louis Seltzer and two other staffers. They had faked a divorce (TIME, Feb. 14) to dramatize the slipshod handling of such cases in Cuyahoga County. Though Editor Seltzer argued that "What we did with good intent . . . could be done by others with bad intent," the four Pressmen were found guilty, fined a total of $1,000. Sympathetic readers offered Editor Seltzer more than $1,400, and sent him six bouquets; he kept the flowers but declined the money...
...court reporter for Scripps-Howard's Cleveland Press, methodical young (32) Leonard Hammer was appalled by the slipshod way couples were divorced in Cuyahoga County. Hammer thought that a couple could get a decree without either of them appearing before a judge, or even presenting any evidence...
...news from Ohio was that able,independent Democratic Governor Frank J. Lausche, a terrific vote-getter in 1944, might not be re-elected this year. Democrats shuddered over a poll in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). It indicated that Governor Lausche, a native Clevelander, would win it by no more than 64,000. In 1944 he had taken it by a record 192,000 to ride out the Republican swell that carried the state for Dewey & Bricker. If Lauschecould be beaten, the Democrats were in bad shape indeed...