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9 Oct 2009, 11:21 am
George Will, before the Nobel Peace Prize: Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: "honest" Abe Lincoln, "Grover the Good" Cleveland, "energetic" Theodore Roosevelt, "idealistic" Woodrow Wilson, "Silent Cal" Coolidge, "confident" FDR, "likable" Ike Eisenhower. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 1:51 pm by Mark J. Neuberger
President Grover Cleveland signed a bill into law on June 28, 1894, declaring Labor Day a national holiday. [read post]
1 Sep 2008, 2:31 pm
Conceived by America's labor unions as a testament to their cause, the legislation sanctioning the holiday was shepherded through Congress amid labor unrest and signed by President Grover Cleveland as a reluctant election-year compromise. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 2:43 am
President Grover Cleveland signed it into law in 1894 in the middle of the infamous Pullman strike, basically as a sop to restive railroad workers. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 7:25 pm by Gerard Magliocca
(Fratricidal Federalists, John Quincy Adams, fracture of the Democracy in 1860, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, George W. [read post]
http://thecareerist.typepad.com/thecareerist/2012/08/tips-for-surviving-that-first-interview.htmlBy Grover E. [read post]
2 Apr 2011, 7:22 pm by Gerard Magliocca
 Melville Fuller (Grover Cleveland) 3. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 1:26 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
We Loved: Close Friends Look Back at the (Ridiculously) Handsome but Down-To-Earth First Son Although one might guess the answer is zero, the correct answer is three, with the most notable being Grover Cleveland who had been the mayor of Buffalo, New York. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 3:01 pm by Joe Patrice
Here are tips from Grover Cleveland, author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks (affiliate link), and Katherine Larkin-Wong, president of Ms. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 8:07 am by Bill
" It's a cheap shot to note that Grover Cleveland also fathered an out-of-wedlock child, but what the hell, why not? [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
 Quick congressional action allowed President Grover Cleveland to sign the law creating the Labor Day national holiday  a week after the strike.Ever since Labor Day has been celebrated in pretty much the same way. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 8:54 am
That included both private-sector and government workers.Read the rest of the story at CNS News.With more people on the dole than there are working to pay taxes, our country has reached the point that President Grover Cleveland foresaw so long ago, when in a message vetoing a welfare bill from Congress he posed the classic rhetorical question:"If the government supports the people, who will support the government?" [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 2:39 pm by David Friedman
Part of one of them deals with politics in general and the events surrounding the nomination of Grover Cleveland in particular. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 4:00 am
The Employer Handbook is officially the Grover Cleveland of the interwebz, proudly nominated twice -- in non-consecutive years -- by the American Bar Association in its Blawg 100 Amici as one of the top employment-law blogs in the galaxy. [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 6:40 am by Mark Tushnet
-- was nominated on February 2, 1893 and took his seat on February 18; Grover Cleveland took office for the second time on March 4, 1893]. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 5:53 am
(The other President was Grover Cleveland, who is considered the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.) [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 11:19 am by Corbin K. Barthold and Cory L. Andrews
When a senator accused him of not filling patronage posts fast enough, President Grover Cleveland replied: “I suppose you mean I should appoint two horse thieves a day instead of one. [read post]
31 Aug 2008, 1:41 am
Oh, the gnashing of teeth among various pundits about Palin's inexperience (see DailyKos for a small roundup of newspaper editorials). [read post]