Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved the O'Mahoney-Ramspeck Bill putting first, second and third-class postmasters under Civil Service (extended to fourth-class postmasters...
...months in jail, or the fine, or both, for a second offense...
...Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half on U.A.W.'s 24-man executive board, to lay their troubles before him in Washington...
...mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open. But the second objective was more than fulfilled. Terror-stricken thousands fled to the safety of the paddy fields and their "lucky hills," pockmarked with the huge stone armchair graves of their dead. Thousands more surged up to the gates of Hong Kong, only to be refused admission because they could not produce...
Last week's Saskatchewan elections proved, however, that Premier Aberhart's spectacular move to add a second province to "Social Credit's" domains had been eminently unsuccessful. Having elected a Liberal government for 28 of its 33 years of existence, the provincial electorate gave its Liberal Government a new five-year lease of life. Social Credit candidates were given only a thin opening wedge in the Provincial Parliament...