Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very definitely would I like to second Norman VV. Geare's plea for Monday holidays [TIME, June 26]. I will accept Mr. Geare's arguments to the industrialist, for in them I am only secondarily interested. I speak for the average man, many of whom, I know will agree with me when I say that more often than not midweek holidays are a nuisance rather than a help. There is little one can do with one day to get a rest other than to go to bed for the day. With a three-day weekend all sorts...
...copy last week was FORTUNE's New York City number, for which 170,000 copies in addition to the regular run of 140,000 had been ordered in advance. In its 248 pages, 23 articles, 179 illustrations were innumerable facts about the world's second largest metropolis, two striking conclusions. The conclusions: 1) many do not enjoy living there, although almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk. ... It is scarcely...
...worshipped him), and Bo Elder was the Legion's national treasurer. To these two it was important that they get the handsome, prematurely white-haired young dean of the University of Indiana Law School elected national commander of the Legion. They did so by shrewdly lining up the second-choice votes of other candidates' backers. They took Commander Paul McNutt back with them to the Legion's national headquarters in Indianapolis and then began planning to make him President...
Louisiana's second Governor Long on his first day in office put flowers on the grave of Brother Huey. Earl Long also conferred with New Orleans' Boss & Mayor Robert S. Maestri, who is the most potent politician left in Louisiana. For his motto Earl Long picked up a Biblical proverb: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right...
From Hong Kong he went on to Shanghai, later to Japanese-conquered Hankow. The Japanese recognized him as a good catch for their puppet regime. With Wang Ching-wei signed up, Japan's military diplomats hoped that a new Chinese central government could be established this week, second anniversary of the war's outbreak...