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...time this was accomplished it was early morning of the fourth day and the fight that had ended was the longest (by 42 hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...
...four leading newspapers: Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News; William Randolph Hearst's American and Herald & Examiner; Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune. General Johnson did not have to be told by any Chicagoan that the New Deal in general and NRA in particular had been given the longest and hardest editorial drubbing anywhere in the land by these four dailies. Col. McCormick was also chairman of the Press Freedom Committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and. as such, had taken a loud and leading position against any NRA attempt to silence its critics...
...Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this decade-Queensway, longest and largest underwater tunnel in the world...
...keeping their secret because even the youngest and greenest reporter on the outside knew that Mr. Pecora was fighting tooth & nail against Mr. Kennedy's election as chairman. That job was morally Mr. Kennedy's because the President had given his good friend a five-year appointment, longest of any Commissioner. But there was open talk that Mr. Kennedy was a Wall Streeter, that he was not above a little stock speculation now and then...
From then until the fourth both teams were inactive as far as tallies were concerned. But with the beginning of the fourth the Elis started to even things up. Their second baseman, Johnny Dugan, had been walked and had stolen second when first-sacker Dave Armstrong slammed out the longest hit of the day, a triple to right field. That made the situation one all as Fred Mitchell's tutees came to the plate...