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Word: 125th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second caller was the G.O.P.'s big bear, Wendell Willkie. Visitor Willkie, who had demanded a single director for the war effort 87 times in the 1940 campaign and 37 times since, told the President he was going to make his 125th such demand in a speech that night, to the U.S. Conference of Mayors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Win | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...made friends outside the church as well as in. He led a picket line of 10,000 to protest the firing of six Negro doctors at Harlem Hospital, led strikes against landlords who charged Harlem's high rents. He established a committee which has picketed 125th Street stores refusing jobs to Negroes, boasts now that his committee has increased Harlem's annual income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Harlem's First | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Asserting he is the son of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S., and that he passed his 125th birthday last Fourth of July, bewhiskered, squinting, eccentric "Major" Edward James Monroe of Jacksonville, Fla. came forward at a 50th annual convention of Confederate veterans in Washington to claim: "The Japanese Government gave my father . . . jewels. The last I knew they were all locked up in the Treasury. I should have them-great boxes of diamonds, but I don't know. Nobody turned them over to me. Crooks in high office. It's a disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Hitler through their mutual friend, Dictator Franco of Spain whom Pétain had once taught the art of war, Adolf Hitler's reply was: drop your arms or be killed. He sent for Benito Mussolini to meet him in Munich to discuss matters on June 18 (125th anniversary of Napoleon's downfall at Waterloo). Surrender, not with honor but unconditional, was reported to be the German's ultimatum to France. Meantime, the war "for which France asked" would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Exit France | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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