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...court appeal of its permit to build a 57-foot church with a 90-foot steeple at 145 Brattle St. The permit was obtained in spite of a general zoning law restricting the height of buildings in the area to 35 feet, presumably as an exception in a "hardship" case...
Twenty inches piled up in the Washington metropolitan area, as much as 40 inches in Pennsylvania, 20 inches in New York City suburbs, 35 inches in northern New Jersey. And wherever it fell, it brought fresh hardship to the land. Absenteeism dogged the factories. Ohrbach's department store in Manhattan looked like a morgue; other New York City stores reported 25% and 33% losses in business. "It definitely hurt unemployment," said a Labor Department expert. "It slowed up construction and farming." Wrote Washington Pundit David Lawrence: "People just don't go downtown shopping or begin to look...
Sometimes he seemed to be running against the U.S. He pointed with ill-concealed glee to figures of U.S. unemployed, crowed that "the people see that the future belongs to the socialist world, which does away with all hardship." He scoffed at the members of the U.S. Congress as "all representatives of large capital, no real workers or farmers." asserted (with a pre-election confidence possible only to dictatorships) that the new Supreme Soviet will include 44% factory or collective-farm workers. It will also include 26% women, he said, as against 3% women in the U.S. Congress. "There...
...quality of T.R. that added the vital plus to his program was that he had learned, during long and full years of growth and experience, joy and hardship, that compromise is no substitute for decisiveness, that inspiration is made out of specific minute-by-minute leadership. He had also absorbed out of a long career of professional politics, precincts and patronage a healthy notion about how the presidency ought...
...committee added another hardship for the proponents of FOOTball, by changing the distance for conversion from two yards to three yards. At the same time, they rejected proposals to move the goalposts back to the goal line, as in professional football, or to authorize any changes in the construction of the goalposts which would put a premium on kicking ability...