Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's next callers. Trig and trim Colonel Francis Clark ("Pinky") Harrington, U. S. Army Engineer Corps, has been on detached duty with WPA since 1935 as assistant administrator in charge of construction projects. He, too, was properly reticent when he departed. But when he returned for a second call that evening, the press knew that Pinky (for complexion) Harrington was to get the No. 1 Relief job. Two days later the President formally named Colonel Harrington as Acting Relief Administrator, and Aubrey Williams to head the National Youth Administration...
...included a secret conference with U. S. Lawyer George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.) If Dr. Schacht had any hopes that Britain would call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides a special $50,000,000 "fighting fund" for subsidizing trade "valuable to Britain but not justifiable as sound commercial risks...
Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...
Under the presidency of one of the world's great Christians, Dr. John R. Mott, they were delegates to the second meeting of the International Missionary Council. Among them were representatives of every Protestant and Orthodox Church. The 45 delegates from North America included the famed woman theologian, Dr. Georgia Harkness; two Bishops, Methodist James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco and Episcopalian Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio; and World's No. 1 Missionary Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, lofty-minded Methodist emissary to high-caste Hindus, who had just come from a tour of U. S. colleges (TIME...
...Carnival (Harper, $2), his second book of fluid, fashionable verses, marks him an already accomplished poetaster...