Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second choice for the new job (the President first begged Sears, Roebuck's Vice President Donald Nelson to take it), Elmer Andrews is lucky that so far he has not antagonized either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. But he will have his work cut out for him enforcing the Wages-&-Hours law and managing the boards he will pick to adjust wages and hours in specific industries...
...fields, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands spent last week in Switzerland doing water colors of upstanding cows browsing against a background of jagged peaks. While Her Majesty thus rusticated, in preparation for her Jubilee in September, it was confirmed at The Hague that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks' bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends...
...John Aspinwall Roosevelt, had walked into Boston's Ritz-Carlton, posed for pictures, then announced that she would this week make her debut not as a socialite but as a professional songstress on the Ritz's roof garden. Salary: $150 the first week, $200 the second, $250 thereafter. "I am not thinking of Hollywood," said she, last week, "I imagine that from time to time I shall see all my friends. But I am most interested in singing to the public...
Whatever hope harassed young Snead might have imbibed with his lunch soon evaporated in the afternoon round. On the 24th green he won his first hole. On the 27th, he was 7 down. On the 29th, White Plains licked White Sulphur. Paul Runyan had won his second P. G. A. championship with a score of 8 and 7, the most decisive margin since the tournament was inaugurated...
...Charlie Chaplin's first wife was onetime Cinemactress Mildred Harris, who divorced him in 1920. His second wife, Lita Grey, who bore him two sons, divorced him in 1927. Last week at Manhattan Beach, Calif., Lita Grey, since married and divorced again, was herself married a third time to a 29-year-old cinemagent, Arthur...