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Franklin Roosevelt, inveterate precedent-breaker, will be breaking no precedent. Bearded Rutherford B. Hayes assumed the Presidency in the White House's Red Room on March 3, 1877.* And five other U.S. Presidents have taken their oaths outside the Capitol grounds: John Tyler and Andrew Johnson at Washington hotels, Chester A. Arthur at his Manhattan home, Theodore Roosevelt at the home of a Buffalo friend, and Calvin Coolidge by lamplight in his father's Vermont farmhouse...
...year-old Chemist Bradley Dewey, who as president of Boston's Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., had been working on synthetic rubber for years before he became Jeffers' right hand. There was tough Engineer Michael James ("Jack") Madigan, the New York bridge builder who became a special breaker of bottlenecks for the War Department, bulled through the no-more-changes-in-technology policy that solidified the rubber program last summer (TIME, July 20). And there were scores of others, in industry and in the Government, who anonymously got things going when bigwigs were not much help. The first butadiene...
...editions. Bound galley proofs had been auctioned for $100,000 worth of war bonds to Mr. Julius Klorfein, who also bought Jack Benny's violin for $1,000,000 in bonds (TIME, March 8). Rival publishers grudgingly guessed that the book might sell 5,000,000 copies. (Record-breaker G.W.T.W. sold 3,000,000.) Simon and Schuster feared paper problems after the first...
Died. Akilles Jarvinen, Olympics decathlon record-breaker in 1932, member of Finland's No. 1 family of athletes; of accident injuries; in Helsinki. Father Werner was Finland's first Olympics champion, won the Greek style discus throw in 1906; Brother Matti threw the javelin for an Olympics record in 1932; Brother Kaarlo is a famed shotputter...
Into the hard-coal mine shafts and sooty breaker houses of East-Central Pennsylvania the miners tramped, glad after 24 days of idleness to be back at work. Once again out of the valleys threaded long, black lines of coal trains. The wildcat, leaderless anthracite strike, which had gained the miners nothing, cost the East 1,000,000 tons of needed fuel, was over at last: the President had stopped it. John L. Lewis had tried and failed (TIME...