Daily Bread for 11.5.15

Good morning, Whitewater.

Thursday brings morning clouds, but afternoon sunshine, to the Whippet City.  We’ll have a high of sixty-eight.  Sunrise is 6:34 and sunset 4:41, for 10h 07m 05s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 31.2% of the its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1968, Richard Nixon is elected president of the United States.  The next day, the New York Times reported his victory:

Nixon Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation

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Elector Vote 287

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Lead in Popular Tally May Be Smaller Than Kennedy’s in ’60

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Nixon Wins Presidency by Margin Probably Smaller Than That of Kennedy in ’60

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WALLACE’S EFFECT HARD TO PIN POINT

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Alabamian Believed to Have Helped Humphrey in Some States, Nixon in Others

By MAX FRANKEL

Richard Milhous Nixon emerged the victor yesterday in one of the closest and most tumultuous Presidential campaigns in history and set himself the task of reuniting the nation.

Elected over Hubert H. Humphrey by the barest of margins–only four one-hundredths of a percentage point in the popular vote–and confronted by a Congress in control of the Democrats, the President-elect said it “will be the great objective of this Administration at the outset to bring the American people together.”

He pledged, as the 37th President, to form “an open Administration, open to new ideas, open to men and women of both parties, open to critics as well as those who support us” so as to bridge the gap between the generations and the races.

On this day in 1912, Wisconsin men reject giving Wisconsin women the right to vote:

1912 – Women’s Suffrage Referendum

On this date Wisconsin voters (all male) considered a proposal to allow women to vote. When the referendum was over, Wisconsin men voted women’s suffrage down by a margin of 63 to 37 percent. The referendum’s defeat could be traced to multiple causes, but the two most widely cited reasons were schisms within the women’s movement itself and a perceived link between suffragists and temperance that antagonized many German American voters. Although women were granted the vote in 1920 by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Wisconsin’s own constitution continued to define voters as male until 1934. [Source: Turning Points in Wisconsin History]

Here’s the Thursday game in this week’s Puzzability series, All is Lost:

This Week’s Game — November 2-6

All Is Lost

This is a week of all or nothing. For each day, we started with a word containing the letter chunk ALL and removed that chunk to get a new word or phrase. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer ALL word followed by the shorter word.

Example:

Young, inexperienced Holstein

Answer:

Callow cow

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the longer one first (as “Callow cow” in the example), for your answer.

Thursday, November 5

Tool for sweeping up after Cinderella and the other guests have left