Years Ago

Today is Monday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2011. There are 40 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1922: Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

1931: The Universal horror film “Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as his creator, is first released.

1969: The Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, 55-45, the first such rejection since 1930.

1980: Eighty-seven people die in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.

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1986: A tentative settlement is reached in a walkout that forced General Motors Corp. to shut down factories in eight states, and affected some operations at Lordstown and in Warren at the Packard Electric Division of GM.

GF Corp., the parent of GF Furniture Systems Inc., reaches an agreement in principle to buy “substantially all” of Alsteel Inc, an Aurora, Ill., based office furniture manufacturer, in a $98 million deal.

1971: A fire sweeps through the old New York Central Railroad freight station at Himrod and Penn avenues destroying the building and about 1,000 tons of Vindicator newsprint stored there.

Leaders of the national Conference of Catholic Women from six states arrive in Youngstown for the Middle Atlantic Conference convention. Mrs. Charles Cushwa Jr. was a founding director of ALCUS and two other Youngstown women, Mrs. John Coakley and Mrs. Michael Holliday, have held national office.

1961: Mahoning County Engineer Samuel Gould Jr. proposes a 50 percent tax on water bills of all nonresidential properties in the county to pay for operation and expansion of sewer services.

1936: Fourteen people are injured, most of whom were released after treatment, after a runaway eastbound Campbell street car races backward and slams into a second car. Hospitalized are Susan Canyo, 41, and Elizabeth Wilson, 49.

Sheet and tin plate mill crews in the Youngstown district working under Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers contracts will receive pay increases of at least 5.5 cents an hour.