Castles of Steel: how Charles Schwab built Bethlehem Steel into the foremost ferrous metals producer in the world (which it still is today) and fostered a succession of executives that kept Bethlehem on the cutting edge of technology and waste minimizaction.
This should be fascinating. I've been a Flyers fan for ~50+ years, so this is very familiar territory. Hoping this time the Flyers keep Hextall, Forsberg, Ricci et. al. and let someone like Glen Sather strip the system bare to get Lindros.
Might also want to mention Scott Stevens...
Dreadnought --the rise of Theodore Roosevelt to become the greatest post-Civil War president, serving two non-consecutive tenures of (essentially) eight years each.
I've said this elsewhere but W. C. Fields was self-educated, especially with respect to British literature. He could have perhaps gained a B.A. by examination, gone through graduate school and emerged with a PhD and become a professor--perhaps even at his home town school, the University of...
I gather you're postulating that Wilson had his disabling stroke sometime around 1916. That does raise some interesting, if thorny problems.
I don't believe there was a written protocol concerning presidential inability in 1916: the 25th amendment was still decades in the future. I'm guessing...
NEW BRUNSWICK would probably be the same. So would NOVA SCOTIA. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND might well be New Northumberland after the strait separating it from New Brunswick. NEWFOUNDLAND would probably remain as is.
QUEBEC...probably split into Quebec (Francophone, at least de facto) and Kanata (de...
In retrospect, Agnew was not a good choice. It didn't take long for him to become something of a "who?" character and indeed a joke. (It was often said that Agnew was Nixon's blue chip insurance against assassination.) Volpe would have irritated fewer people and quite possibly set a few minds at...
To be sure. But Roosevelt contracted at least one tropical disease in Brazil in 1916 and never fully recovered. Avoid that and TR probably lives at least another 15-20 years.
1. Any discussions involving the Kennedy campaign and Mayor Daley in 1960 (rumors abound....)
2. The Oval Office in mid-1972.
3. A street level view on the Appel Quay in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
Lowden had direct experience as a public executive working with a legislative body as governor of Illinois. Wood was a doctor turned career soldier, OTOH. And while Johnson had both legislative and executive experience, he was widely known to have a highly irascible temperament, which wouldn't...
Not a chance. The Browns were clearly playing second fiddle before Pearl Harbor: indeed, they had all their ducks in a row to move to Los Angeles for the 1942 season (see "Even the Browns" by William B. Mead), only to have wartime travel restrictions intervene. As soon as the war was over, they...
How do you rationalize a Teapot Dome scandal? That was a creature of the venal cabinet officers (Fall; Denyb) that Harding appointed. Roosevelt's appoiintees would have been entirely differentis alone suggests this entire thread was slapped together with little research.
In the NJ suburbs of Philadelphia, about 12 straight line miles from City Hall, age 31, with a wife and 18 month old daughter. All three of us are likely gone, given the proximity of the Philadelphia Navy Yard and several refineries on the Delaware. Needless to say, none of my grandkids ever...