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15 Dec 2011, 1:54 am
Indeed, as long ago as the 1880's, President Grover Cleveland summed up the national resistance to government-provided aid by pointing out that it was a slippery slope, and difficult to place limits upon once the practice became routine. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 10:49 am
President Grover Cleveland from the representive of the gift-giver, France. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 6:00 am by Kurt Carroll
On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill, S. 730, establishing Labor Day as a national holiday. [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]
22 Jul 2011, 6:39 am by mmoreland
Anthony chasing President Grover Cleveland with an umbrella in order to further her demands for women’s sufferage. [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 9:39 am by Mary L. Dudziak
Grover Cleveland, the Democrat who sat in the White House during the depression of the 1890s, intoned, “Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 5:31 am by Emily Kesler
Did you know: Grover Cleveland excluded the promise “to obey” from the traditional wedding vows when he married Frances Folsom at the White House on June 2, 1886? [read post]
18 May 2011, 12:58 pm by Sandy Levinson
Shouldn’t they find Grover Cleveland, and his stunning lack of anything that could be described as a “bleeding heart,” an inspiration? [read post]
18 May 2011, 5:45 am by Gerard Magliocca
 This national railroad shutdown, led by Eugene Debs, ended when President Grover Cleveland sent troops into Chicago to take out the headquarters of the strikers and arrest their leaders. [read post]
10 May 2011, 3:55 am
Ayazi, a former teacher of English as a Second Language employed by the New York City School District’s Grover Cleveland High School, filed charges with PERB alleging that her union, the United Federation of Teachers [UFT]: 1. [read post]
6 May 2011, 8:09 am by Adam Gillette
He went on to serve in the Confederate army and government; later, despite his secessionist activities, President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the Supreme Court. [read post]
4 May 2011, 1:51 am by Kevin LaCroix
 The firm can boast of a former President among its alumni, as Grover Cleveland was a member of a predecessor firm during the period between his two separate Presidential terms. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 4:30 am by Nick Farr
One of my favorites involves the Baby Ruth bar: it's a famous trivia answer that the candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's daughter, rather than the baseball player Babe Ruth. [read post]
2 Apr 2011, 7:22 pm by Gerard Magliocca
 Melville Fuller (Grover Cleveland) 3. [read post]
15 Jan 2011, 6:52 am by Daniel Suhr
”   When Democrat Grover Cleveland won the presidency in 1884, he promptly fired Payne as postmaster, labeling him an “offensive partisan. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 11:46 am by David Lat
Read my interview with Grover Cleveland — yes, I ask him about the origin of his name — over here.8. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 2:53 pm by Roger Alford
Basically they relied on an inaccurate map issued by Arbitrator Grover Cleveland in an 1888 boundary dispute. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 9:19 am by CSL Library News
Significantly, of our 44 presidents (if one counts Grover Cleveland twice), there have been 25 individuals who were lawyers before becoming presidents, including William Howard Taft who became Chief Justice of the U.S. [read post]