Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being made presentable for the Interstate Commerce Commission's approval, the Pennsylvania remained remarkably quiet. Last week, through its Baltimore Sun agent, it demanded: " 1) A line paralleling the N. Y. C. along the Erie lake shore from or near Brockton, some 50 miles west of Buffalo, to Toledo; 2) Ownership or joint control of the Lackawanna as a means of relieving the present main line of the Pennsylvania from Harrisburg, Pa., to Trenton, N. J., of traffic congestion; 3) A short freight line from Chicago to St. Louis, preferably the Chicago & Eastern Illinois...
...House Octet. Among the U. S. "stunts" that entertained the Europeans was the singing of the icehouse octet from Toledo. Eight businessmen, wearing clean blue flannel shirts, sporting ice picks painted red, sang, led by Mortician Jeffery V. Harris...
...White House office one morning last week sat President Coolidge, his finger hovering over a button. The clock reached 9:30. The President pushed the button. Straightway started, in distant Toledo, the presses of the new Toledo Blade newspaper plant...
...LOVER-Richard Connell-Minion, Batch ($2). Be not dismayed if you hear that this book deals with the spendthrift son of an Irish-American pioneer in a city with slums and polo, like Toledo. Author Connell writes books on transatlantic steamers and French park benches. He knows no more about sons of Irish-American pioneers than he does about Mongolian law or any other dull literary subject. Author Connell is an Irish poet who was made cheerful by being born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. With no sorrows of Deirdre for ballast, his fancy flies off on such tangents...
...Country Over. Newspapers the country over-San Francisco's Chronicle, Washington's Post, St. Paul's Pioneer Press, Baltimore's Sun, Toledo's Blade -submitted to the logic of their past scandal policies and told their readers, in front-page despatches from news services and special correspondents, about the abnormalities of a fat old flesh-potter in a distant city. The sensational Cleveland News, stewing in its own juice finally became disgusted with itself and apologized to the public, in real misery...