Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cousin of the late Mrs. Garrett, quietly became administrators of the residuary estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the court was to pass on the audit, the fourth floor of Philadelphia's City Hall was as crowded as a County Fair, and Case No. 2552 of 1932 became a real problem for the Orphans' Court which William Penn set up 248 years ago. Within four months, 3,000 claims were filed, since then 14,000 more...
...Northern Trust Co.'s meeting a fourth-generation Chicago banker was elevated to the board of his family's bank last week-Solomon Byron Smith, 31, vice president son of President Solomon Albert Smith, a grandson of that bank's founder and a great-grandson of a powder salesman who helped found what was later the cornerstone of big Continental Illinois...
Harvard is expected to win easily over the Boston Y team to gain its fourth straight triumph. Some good competition should be forthcoming, however, for Boston is also undefeated after two meets...
...belief that under this new constitutional practice the President should in every fourth year, insofar as seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems, leaving specific recommendations for future legislation to be made by the President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress...
...always a tactical battle in which the man who plays well enough to impose his method on the other is the winner. After the first set, the only time when Vines really looked as if he had a chance was when he took the first three games of the fourth set. Perry won six of the next seven and the match. Two nights later, they played again in Cleveland. Perry won in straight sets, 13-11, 6-3. In Chicago Perry won again and Vines entered a hospital...