Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monster of the imagination," predicted that it would fall down. Alexandre Dumas, fils, called it a "horror." Because of "this torturing, inevitable nightmare," Guy de Maupassant fled the capital. M. Eiffel smiled, gave his personal fortune to finish the Tower, after Government funds ran out when it was one-fourth completed. The Tower attracted nearly two million cash customers in its first year, brought its builder wealth and made him an officer in the Legion of Honor...
...dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack...
Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
First important Mussolini innovation was the creation of the Fascist Grand Council, a body of Fascist bigwigs. Permanent members now are Il Duce and the three surviving Quadrumvirs of the March on Rome-Italo Balbo, Marshal Emilio De Bono, Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi. (Michele Bianchi, the fourth, died in 1930.) Other members are the President of the Senate and 22 more, from Cabinet members to the commander-in-chief of the Fascist Militia...
Born. To David Whitmire Hearst, 23, youngest (with his twin, Randolph) son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; and onetime Show Girl Hope Chandler, 18; a daughter, their first child; Hearst's fourth grandchild; in Los Angeles...