Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Curator Blake-More Godwin of the Toledo Museum of Art, pressed a button. Curtains fell in the 19 great display windows in the famed Toledo department store of Lasalle & Koch (pronounced "cook") revealing 19 vast paintings of Toledo industry...
...have always felt that Toledo is only as great as its industries," explained President Alfred B. Koch in describing the origin of this impressive show. In order suitably to glorify these industries, the department store turned to Art. It scorned half measures, hired Arthur Covey, internationally famed mural painter. Six times he visited Toledo and peered appreciatively at Toledo industry. He went to work, telling the story of Toledo with tubes of paint & with brushes...
...President appointed Walter F. Brown of Toledo to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, succeeding J. Walter Drake of Detroit, who resigned...
Buffalo baseball nine, champions of the International League. The rabbi knew that the Buffalos were playing that day with the American Association's champion Toledo team for the minor league championship of the world; that Toledo had four wins to Buffalo's one; that Andrew Cohen's mates would suffer mentally and possibly financially if he could not play. Was there no dispensation in Judaism...
Shortstop Cohen played well. He came to bat four times; he made two "safe hits"; he "put out" three opponents; and six times he helped his mates in plays. He made no errors. But Buffalo scored no runs. Toledo made four, and won the game & the series. Andrew Cohen's share of the series' receipts was $750. Toledo players, victorious, received $1,000 each. ¶Past Brooklyn synagogs on Yom Kippur Day screeched fire trucks; from Brooklyn synagogs ran children and fasting members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron...