Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson County Hoffman polled four votes to every three for Edge, Duffield, Conklin, surpassed Fort 3-to-1. Nevertheless, final results added little to the Governor's prestige. The Landon slate beat the Borah slate 4-to-1. Among Landon delegates-at-large, however, Hoffman ran fourth, 50,000 votes behind Oldster Edge, whose comeback raised political eyebrows. Recognizing the rebuke, the Governor announced with unaccustomed modesty that he would not aspire to chairman the New Jersey delegation at Cleveland, resigned that post of honor to Mr. Duffield...
...Addis Ababa, send off to Il Duce a long report containing an outline of a new system of justice for Ethiopia. The Viceroy suggested courts based on the extraterritorial courts of China, one for black Coptic Christians, another for white colonists and foreigners, a third for Moslems and a fourth for disputes between whites and natives...
...fixed-rate tariff made concessions to French goods impossible. Consequently France declined to give U. S. goods the benefit of her minimum tariffs. The French reduced their quotas on U. S. goods when Depression hit harder. U. S. dollar devaluation made matters worse. Last year France was the fourth largest U. S. market, whereas the U. S. was only the twelfth largest market for France. But even in 1910 U. S. exports to France were higher than in 1935, and as far back as 1901 France exported more goods to the U. S. than it did in 1935. What both...
...Relief Bill of 1936 will produce the fourth stage which is theoretically the same as the third stage but smaller in size. Yet last week when Senators began looking into the matter, it appeared that Administrator Hopkins was going to be the only fish left in the relief pond. Of the $1,425,000,000 for relief in the next fiscal year all was allotted to him. Some $85,000,000 was set aside for rural rehabilitation, but the bill specified that Mr. Hopkins, not Dr. Tugwell, was to spend it. For Secretary Ickes and his Public Works there...
Last week Washington saw the first world championship boxing bout in the capital's history. Opponents for the fourth time were Fisticuffers Miller and Sarron. Though he failed to harm his opponent, who cleverly ducked & bobbed, Champion Miller piled up a comfortable point lead in the opening rounds. In the ninth Challenger Sarron began a blistering offensive, pummeled Miller around the ring. In the 13th round Miller was hanging on the ropes. The 18th went the same way. The title went to Sarron. Boasted he: "Freddie...