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...capable. They seem determined to compete with or excel the physically normal workers and they put in extra effort." Two of Lockheed's blind workers proved inventive: Ted Bushnell, who runs a parts numbering machine, invented a foot pedal which upped the machine's production 50%. James Garfield devised an adjustment knob and a turn-on switch for his burring roll which have been adopted throughout the plant...
...stretched 15,000 graves, neatly spaced row on row. Facing the small crowd that had gathered to hear him speak, he paid soldierly tribute to the men who had died in the Civil War. The occasion was America's first Memorial Day. The speaker was General James A. Garfield, later to become President of the United States. Said he: "Let us consider. Eight years ago this was the most unwarlike nation of the earth. . . . The faith of our people in the stability and permanence of their institutions was like their faith in the eternal course of nature. . . . [Then...
...When Garfield spoke, the struggle between North and South was but three years over. Many of its men and all of its memories were alive. The names of its battles were like a vast orchestration of the years of war. Manassas and Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, Vicksburg and the Wilderness-the names would be long remembered. Seventy-five years later, on another Memorial Day, the nation was again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were...
Ohio, part of the Industrial East and also of the Agricultural Midwest, a barometer standing where all U.S. political currents converge, has already produced seven Presidents: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Harding. And John Bricker, who won his third term as Governor last November by a record 374,000 votes, is the greatest vote-getter in vote-getting Ohio's history...
...Force (John Garfield, Harry Carey; TIME...