Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey. For the first time in 50 years the State faced a deficit, $13,000,000. Persistently loud has been the demand for additional taxes for Relief (TIME, May 4). Equally loud has been the Legislature's reluctance to legislate a tax bill. That the Dorrance largess, one-fourth of which was interest on the original amount due, was a beautifully-timed blessing seemed apparent to everyone but State Senator Charles E. Loizeaux. Snapped he: "This is just staving off the evil day. . . . Next year there won't be any Dorrance money...
...Light Horse Harry" because he plays without the exaggerated caution of most of his colleagues, made a 70 which was spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced old Macdonald Smith, who tied with his brother for the Open in 1910 and has narrowly missed winning it more often than any other golfer in the world, had needed...
...last week one St. Mark's boy, Frederick William Hubbell of the fourth generation of a wealthy Des Moines real estate and insurance family was dead of infantile paralysis. Seventeen other St. Mark's boys were known to be stricken, eight of them after they were removed from school. All are suspected of having taken an unseasonable swim, like paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt, in chilly water. Four of the seventeen showed some degree of paralysis. How many other children were taken sick last week in other schools and homes where public inquisitiveness pried less sharply, will not be known...
Everett Donaghy, Junior Varsity coach, started on the mound for the Alumni and was touched for three runs n four innings. Mal McTernen, George Tittmann, and Paul Connolly singled successively in the second and subsequently scored two while the graduates were tossing out the side. In the fourth Connolly tallied wen Braman Gibbs backed up his base on balls with a double to center...
...annually. But during Depression, two oldtime tobacco men discovered another and a cheaper method of selling cigarets. They were Reuben Morris ("Rube") Ellis, long time president of Philip Morris & Co. and Leonard Burnham ("Mac") McKitterick. Their cigaret was Philip Morris English Blend, which is now crowding Old Gold for fourth place in the roster of fastest selling U. S. brands. Their company was Philip Morris & Co. which, before they got their bright idea, made cigarets but not Philip Morris English Blends...