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...umbrellas." Nevertheless, he allowed the ceremony to take place in the open, which was courageous considering what happened to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who appeared at his inauguration without hat and overcoat, and took more than an hour to read his 8,000-word inaugural address, the longest in U.S. history. Never was author's pride more bitterly rewarded; he caught a chill and died a month later...
...early summer doldrums, production was almost paralyzed by the steel strike, the longest and perhaps the most unnecessary in steel history. It was a prime example of the folly of Government controllers, who argued that wages could be continually raised without an increase in prices. The strike was provoked by the decision of the Administration's "impartial" fact-finding committee to give the union an even bigger raise than it expected-plus the union shop to boot. When the industry refused, Mobilizer Charles Edward Wilson, General Electric's ex-president, tried to stave off the strike with...
...half an hour after the game signing autographs. Now a successful rancher with 6,355 acres in Rotan, Texas-thanks to some $300,000 earned in salaries and endorsements ("half went to Texas, half to taxes")-Sammy Baugh was altogether ready to call it quits after 16 years, the longest playing career in N.F.L. history...
After Professor George Herbert Palmer arrived, the turret went, and the house received some remodling. Palmer lived there the longest of anyone--from 1884 to 1933, existing on "the decay of Greece", as he put it--and presented the Yard with the last half of the house's name. Richard S. Gummere, retired director of Admissions, occupied it until Conant moved in, dispossesed from his own lodgings by the U. S. Navy. The President moved back down Quincy Street in 1946, and by the next year, the house was in its present location...
McGill's Mike Brodcur won his squad's only match 3 to 2 over Mike Ward in the longest and most exciting contest of the day. Brodcur pushed through the last two games...