Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created when the President pushed "Dear Alben" Barkley...
...played on a concrete court about half the length of a football field, marked off to let the speeding players readily know where they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall, and, in a split second, return it so that...
Although the admirers of Tommy Hitchcock had plenty to crow about (he played his usual slam-bang game), the teamwork of the Greentree side faded under the brilliant strategy of Old Westbury's Stewart Iglehart and the aggressive, precise team play of his mates. From the fourth chukker on, they peppered the Greentree goal-Mike Phipps scoring six times, Cecil Smith eight, Stewart Iglehart two-in a display of well-balanced polo that has seldom been matched anywhere. Greentree, conspicuously outmounted but making exciting play of it until the final gong, scored only seven goals. Experts wondered whether...
...week periods and continuing contracts hang over from prosperous times into depression months. Radio's big first quarter this year was swelled with much of this continuing business, and it contributed mightily to the handsome gross totals. But the rush to return to the air during the fourth quarter involves another factor. All parts of network-radio's day do not provide the same audience pulling power. To reach the largest and most varied audience, advertisers consider evening time the best, favor most strongly the hour between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. in one of the four...
...Youngest member of the young industry is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Network radio had had several unsuccessful efforts to build a fourth national chain to compete with NBC's Red and Blue, CBS, when in 1934 an advertiser who wanted to reach New York and Chicago listeners, but did not want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time...