Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with its announcement of October 24, TIME herewith prints its second* "want-ad" letter, will print one such letter every week for the next few weeks...
...past year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, whose duties are to be those of a minister for civilian defense, blamed...
Belgium did not steal the Congo. Famed for its Pygmies and the Congo River (longest in Africa, second longest in the world), the Congo, a dank jungle-about one-third the size of the U. S.-lying astride the equator, is valuable to Belgium as a source of copper, rubber, palm oil. The river mouth was discovered about 1482 by a Portuguese, Dioga Cào, but for three centuries little colonization was done. In the middle 19th Century intrepid British explorers pushed into the interior and in 1873 famed Explorer David Livingstone died while charting the river...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven's Coriolanus overture, Franz Schubert's Second Symphony, César Franck's Les Eolides, Giacomo Meyerbeer's Dinorah overture...
...considered a rising power. Her husband was a convivial industrial architect, New Deal fixer and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury before he got his present party post. Evie, who rarely mentions her first husband,* was 26 in 1935 when she took the 48-year-old Chip as her second. They live in a gilded suite in the Mayflower, stage some of Washington's liveliest parties. Evie's stock of racy anecdotes about big-shot politicos is apparently inexhaustible. Naturally she does not write all she knows. From her first few columns...