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Never before had any foreign dignitary addressed Congress in such a crucial time. Congressmen who had gone home for the Christmas holiday scurried back to Washington. A thousand men & women, after a day-long struggle for tickets, crowded into the small galleries; another 5,000 stood in the damp weather outside the Capitol, just to be near...
...there was a difference. The annual day-long parade had more zip, more color, more of a grim military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...
During the day-long program the alumni will visit classes and laboratories, lunch in the college dining halls, see the Harvard-Yale football game replayed on the screen, and take part in an afternoon symposium. Visits to the cyclotron atom-smasher and special tours of Widener are scheduled...
There was another reason for his ups & downs: he suffered from willful fatigue. Hour after hour, day after day, he harangued, exhorted, pleaded with tiny groups from the train's rear platform. Several times, noting small clusters of people who had wandered down to the tracks to hold up their babies as the train went by, he jerked the bell cord, backed up the train, and blasted away with a lengthy speech before the embarrassed little groups. The day-long strain on his voice and endurance was a constant anxiety to his handlers. But the brute endurance...
...unionized, they had decided on concerted action because of President Yahr's policy of hiring young men and women at low pay and firing them to hire others when their length of service entitled them to pay rises. President Yahr denied that this was his policy, but after day-long conferences he capitulated, agreed to fire himself. They let him keep his stock and title of president...