Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes the Senators had killed the second Popular Front Cabinet 223-to-49, and numerous Senators fulminated that their assembly is the one which represents the geographical districts of France,* and primarily the peasantry and French landholders, large & small. Meanwhile, away went Socialist Blum, hugging the fine chance he had created for again arousing proletarian wrath against "The Dotards." Technically the Cabinet need not have resigned, for in the Senate the Premier had not posed the question of confidence, but he and his Popular Front ministers trooped off to hand their resignations to President Albert Lebrun who immediately named...
...heed to the past-performance charts of golf pros as racing addicts give to form sheets, no one would have been surprised last week when, at the close of the winter circuit, the Professional Golfers Association announced the top money-winners of the season. Leading the field for the second year in a row was British-born Harry Cooper of Chicopee, Mass., never yet Open champion but generally considered the most expert golfer...
Divorced. Conrad Potter Aiken, 48, famed poet (Time in the Rock; Preludes for Memnon), by his second wife, Clarice Lorenz Aiken, 30; in Boston. Grounds: infidelity...
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin...
...young boarder, accused his wife of infidelity, made the boarder dance at the point of a gun. After the divorce Harry French went through a kind of proletarian purgatory: jobs slipped through his fingers, money went for liquor, strikes got him in trouble, his daughters by his second wife died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights and two passenger trains were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman...