Word: 116th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...116th day of the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history, the Supreme Court upheld the emergency procedure of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act as "a public remedy in times of emergency," gave force to a Taft-Hartley injunction ordering 500,000 steelworkers back to the ore mines, furnaces and mills for 80 days. The court's 8-to-1 decision (Justice William O. Douglas dissenting) cut tersely through the United Steelworkers' lengthy legal challenge, which had already won more than two weeks' delay in the courts. In upholding the injunction handed down by the U.S. District...
From that simple church next week, clad in a black, gilded robe and bearing a diamond-studded crown, Mina the Solitary will journey to the patriarchal palace in Cairo, where he will reside, Copts believe, as St. Mark's 116th successor...
...Manhattan on the night of March 12 Jesus de Galindez wound up his lecture in Hispanic-American civilization at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, dismissed the students, started down a dark walk toward the subway station at Broadway and 116th Street and vanished. This week, despite a continuing search by New York detectives and a lookout by the cops of 13 states, Galindez was still missing...
There on the site of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, Low Memorial Library was built looking out over a muddy 116th Street to the farm land beyond. Today Low Library still sands, but faces onto those buildings that have come to typify Columbia University to the outside world. John Jay Hall, Hamilton Hall, the new Bradley Library, and others rise straight up like huge apartment houses, finding space in the air that Columbia does not have on the ground. The farm land on which Lou Gehrig once awaited home runs now supports a small area of grass, the only campus...
...government, staged conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences in the Spectator. Perhaps as anything has come to making this year stand out over any other has been the sodding of 116th Street with the grass from a New Jersey polo field...