Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Wilsonian (he had cemented the relationship by marrying Daughter Eleanor Wilson in 1914), McAdoo came near the Democratic Presidential nominations in 1920 and 1924. Sidetracked by New York's Al Smith, McAdoo repaid that score and formed a second political alliance eight years later by helping to sidetrack Al Smith for Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. At the same time he ran for the Senate with Hearst and Roosevelt backing, won his first big elective...
...voted against: pay cuts for Congress (1934); shelving the anti-lynching bill, barring Relief workers from political activity, the Byrnes sit-down strike amendment, increased income surtaxes, new processing taxes (1937); the second...
Stanley artfully passed the lure back a second time...
...content to wait for television to convert radio into eye and ear entertainment, U. S. broadcasters strain the microphone by trying to make it report inaudible events at second hand. Sponsors' favorite among the second-hand reporters is Oddities Collector Robert Ripley, whose Believe It Or Not programs have missed only one broadcasting season since...
...Albany, Calif., Contractor G. De Gaeta bought two lots, started to put up two houses. When the second house was almost finished, Builder De Gaeta found he had built the houses on someone else's property, a full block from the land he had bought...