ABSTRACT

Cleveland is secure in steady employment, diversified industry, and a profitable balance between war and civilian production. Everything from television sets and chlorophyll pills to gold bricks and honorary degrees has a good market here. Racial and class tensions are relatively low, the Nationality Gardens in Rockefeller Park a symbol of the way Polish, German, Czech, Italian, Jewish, Hungarian, Russian, English, Serbian, and Greek vegetables can grow together in harmony. As long as business continues good, the antagonism among groups which is one of America's sadnesses everywhere can probably be confined to the level of personal bitterness. In response to great civic need, the existing brokerage firms have expanded their staffs, opened new offices, and invited aid from New York to accommodate the waiting hordes of stock-buyers who seek to regain the unencumbered agility of the fine careless days of 1932.