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...Winfield W. Riefler, Federal Reserve Board economist, reported that the FRB's industrial-production index would probably go down another two points in February from the January figure of 125 (1947-49 = 100). That would mean, said Riefler, that output since the postwar peak last October has dropped about as much as it did in the first four months of the "exceptionally mild" setback in 1948-49-Economist Edwin G. Nourse, who was head of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers during the 1949 recession, told Congress what the current figures mean...
First-ballot choice of the nominating committee for new president of the convention was spectacled, Nebraska-born Winfield Edson, 45, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Long Beach, Calif. A low 80s golfer, camera fan and chinchilla breeder on the side, Winfield Edson has boosted his church's membership from 1,500 to 3,724 since 1939, has averaged a speech a day to do it. Not content with expanding, his church has pushed members out to form ten new churches in the Long Beach area...
Passionate Voyage. In Haverhill, Mass., Winfield E. Donahue was fined $100 for reckless driving after his girl friend told police that when she refused his marriage proposal, he replied: "O.K., you asked for it," and rammed a telephone pole...
Andrew Jackson's pre-presidential fame was almost entirely as a general. So was William Henry ("Old Tippecanoe") Harrison's. Zachary Taylor was a professional soldier who had never voted. Franklin Pierce, who beat Winfield Scott, was a citizen-soldier like Harry Truman, but his war record was not nearly so good as Truman's. He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and President Polk, an old friend, promptly promoted him to brigadier-general. Pierce fell off his horse, sprained his knee and fainted at the battle of Contreras, fainted again the next...
Harry Truman, who often says that Bob Taft is his favorite Republican candidate for 1952, found another one that he likes even better: General Winfield Scott, hero of the War with Mexico...