Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland Museum of Art is a little ivory panel (10 in. x 12 in.) carved with the story of the sufferings of Jesus. Because it is divided into two sections it is called a diptych. The Museum bought it last year from Manhattan Dealer Demotte and, delighted, published a brochure stating that this diptych was made in the 11th Century at Liege, said it was the most valuable diptych in the U. S., that it cost...
Last month Leonida Pitamitz, Jugoslav Minister to the U. S., made a delicate call upon Frederic Allen Whiting, secretary of the Cleveland Museum. Politely he informed Director Whiting that the diptych in the museum was stolen-goods, that it belonged to the Zagreb Cathedral. Director Whiting removed the diptych to a safe deposit vault, awaited developments...
Last week Minister Pitamitz sped by motor from Washington to Cleveland. There the Museum authorities received him with great formality. Ceremoniously they gave the diptych back to Jugoslavia...
...just before the dances died out in the country. Since then the interest in the Society has spread to the United States and organizations have been established as branches of the English one in many of the larger American cities. There are such groups in Boston, New York City, Cleveland, and Rochester...
...Fokker Aircraft is Western Air Express whose president Harris M. Hanshue (also Fokker's president) was in Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan. The two systems would transfer passengers at Kansas City...