Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourth Try. Congress is now fretting over a fourth Neutrality bill, a fourth attempt to make sense of the U. S. desire for peace. The bill sponsored in the House of Representatives by the Administration called for repeal of the mandatory embargo on arms exports. But isolationist Congressmen amended it to read very much like the 1935-36 Nye legislation. This palpable defeat for Roosevelt and Hull was hailed by verbal fireworks in Rome and Berlin. Fascist glee provoked a tart "I-told-you-so" from the President, who promptly called upon the Senate to reverse the House...
Every summer, around the Fourth of July, the interest of U. S. sport fans focuses on the British Isles where three of the oldest and most important sport events in the world are usually going full swing: the Henley Royal Regatta, the British Open golf tournament and the All-England tennis championships...
Born. To Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 39, world's No. 1 polo player; and Margaret Mellon Laughlin Hitchcock, 38, grandniece of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; twin sons, their third and fourth children. Weights: 7 Ib. 8 oz. and 7 Ib. 10 oz. Names: Thomas and William...
Married. Sacha Guitry, 54, flamboyant French actor-playwright-producer; and Genevieve de Seréville, 18, beauteous, stagestruck debutante; he for the fourth time (other brides: Charlotte Lysés, Yvonne Printemps, Jacqueline Delubac); in Versailles. Hour before the wedding Actor Guitry personally invited President & Mme Lebrun. They hedged, finally sent a minor official in their stead...
...took charge of the public libraries of Denver, Springfield, Mass, and Newark (beginning in 1902). He believed in making books useful. He started the first children's library in the U. S., the first business branch libraries, the first extensive public files of periodicals and newspapers. On the fourth floor at Newark he set aside two rooms and a corridor for Art; in 1909 it was incorporated as a museum and received $10,000 from the town to buy an Oriental collection. Director Dana wrote a little piece called The Museum of Interest and the Museum of Awe. Said...