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...Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Roosevelt went on to win the vice-presidential nomination in the doomed 1920 campaign of James C. Cox. The next year, after two long days of sailing and swimming at his summer home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, he suffered a chill that was misdiagnosed, then the horrifying paralysis of polio. He was told that he would never walk again...
...descended from out of the Arctic all at once, freezing not just a town or a city here and there, but giving nearly the whole U.S. a case of chilblains. The week began with thermometers reading lower than they had in decades, a century, ever. Then the astonishing chill spread, breaking weather records all week long in 75 cities...
...disrupt life all over Europe. All of the weathermen agreed that the continuing frigidity was extraordinary. Said Case: "It was the type of mass outbreak, in size and severity, that we see once every 50 years." Strong winds made the cold even more bitter. In Chicago, the wind-chill factor was calculated at -81°. Even for weather-jaded NWS Meteorologist Roger Bygrave of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where the temperature bottomed out at - 36° (one degree short of an all time record), the conditions were startling. Said he: "It was a once-in-a-century setup...
...Englanders would feel cheated if a winter passed without deep snow and a stern, bitter chill. Accordingly, the region's residents largely professed indifference to the ubiquitous cold. Yes, it was -23° in Chester, Mass. Yes, the record cold in Worcester (-8°) broke a local television station's transmitter and knocked out broadcasting for a day. And, yes, the freezing temperatures in Boston caused subway rails to crack. But stoicism hardly faltered. Said NWS Meteorologist John Pollock of Concord, N.H. (where it was -10°); "This is just beautiful New England weather...
...what was billed as America's premiere sporting event, dominating the covers of the nation's newsmagazines, was held in a city with a wind chill factor of 21 degrees below zero...