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...105th Field Artillery Armory in The Bronx a weary group of men turned up their visors, pushed back their chairs on which they had been sitting for 24 days. They had just completed a count of 2,013,101 ballots. It had been going on since November 5, the longest and biggest counting job ever undertaken in any U. S. city. New York had replaced its old board of aldermen with a new city council, and the council's members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation. A few days before, counters...
...President's popularity, despite his triumphal tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major business recession which was not only the longest since 1933 but one of the sharpest in U. S. economic history...
...little joke. He announced that the large canvas which he had conveyed in great secrecy from Paris last spring was no Boucher but a painting by Paul Cézanne which has been regarded as one of the great masterpieces of modern art, Les Grandes Baigneuses, the longest-meditated of Cézanne's numerous studies of nude figures against landscape. Its title, The Big Bathers, distinguishing it from others in the Bathers series, refers to the size of the canvas: 6 ft. 10 in. by 8 ft. 3 in. It was acquired by Mr. Widener from the private...
...most important of traditional football rivalries, certainly the longest geographically is that formed seven years ago between St. Mary's of California & Fordham of New York. This year St. Mary's football season was spoiled by money troubles, and Fordham had been tied only by Pittsburgh. As expected, Fordham bruised and bumped St. Mary's all over the field, three times scored touchdowns that were called back. In the third period Joe Woitkoski finally scored the one that beat St. Mary...
Spade-calling (TiME, Aug. 22, 1932), bronze-haired Tallulah Bankhead, famed for her heavy-lidded sophistication, has been in the theatre since she was 16. Longest Bankhead run on a Broadway stage was Reflected Glory (1936), 127 performances. Shortest: (see above...