Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland, Portland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh Philadelphia, San Francisco have had a greater number of murders than in the same period...
Around a trunk in the Union Station, Toledo, crowded porters, reporters and detectives. With left hands they held their noses. With right hands they struggled awkwardly to open a "mystery trunk, which stank in a manner to indicate that it might contain matter for the strong stomachs of yellow journalism. Then, with a final "Right." Detective De Lora whanged the trunk open with a crowbar. Out rolled several dozen heads of cabbage. The trunk, emptied, was held for its owner...
...Harding Trophy was won by a New York team with a total of 616 for 144 holes; four golfers from Cleveland, with 5 strokes more, were second; Pittsburgh, 629, third; then Washington, Chicago, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto, Newark, Dayton, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Boston, Toledo...
...Ohio, at Dayton and Toledo, Ku Klux Klansmen fired tall crosses in the night: "In memory of William Jennings Bryan, the greatest Klansmen of our time, this cross is burned; he stood at Armageddon and battled for the Lord...
...Plate's official title, it possessed no real terminal facilities at New York, Chicago or St. Louis. To make something of the line, it consequently became necessary to expand it. First they went after and acquired (for $750,000 cash and $2,250,000 credit) the "Clover Leaf" (Toledo, St. Louis & Western), then in a receivership. Next, the brothers acquired from the New York Central the Lake Erie & Western ($500,000 cash and $2,500,000 credit). In 1923, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved these minor consolidations, from which the present Nickel Plate system has resulted, with...