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...said that the unpopular Curley beat himself, but Saltonstall was re-elected in 1940, although the Democrats that year carried the state for Franklin Roosevelt by 137,000 votes. And since his re-election to a third term in 1942, Lev Saltonstall has been governor of Massachusetts for the longest stretch in 93 years...
London caught its longest air raid in many months, as German planes whisked over the city for an hour. The Nazis were using their new tactics, approaching at high altitude, dumping their bombs indiscriminately, then diving to build up maximum speed for the getaway. Bomb loads ran heavily to incendiaries, presumably to start many scattered fires, keep the air-raid wardens and firefighters on the run. London's thundering gun-and-rocket barrage shot down at least eight raiders out of an estimated 80. That same night, more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers gave Berlin 2,800 tons...
...look back on it I think I have expected this all along. Jack and I had the longest visit with each other the last week that we ever had. I will never be sorry I was with him at that time. He did not expect to get back and told me all of the things he wanted done...
...Taking the (apparently) longest way round to finish Italian fascism-by mock-saluting the big frog while preparing to clean up the marsh...
...chief assistant to Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, 64, the new director of Retraining and Reemployment. This week she stipulated that her acceptance was only for a very limited period-not more, she hopes, than two months. Even so short a Washington assignment she regards as "the longest sentence of my life...