Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, he rebelled at living on an allowance from his family. James has the three ambitions common to most of the Roosevelts: 1) to get married, 2) to gain economic independence, 3) to become President of the U. S. Having attained the first he set out to get the second. Through the dean of the Law School he met a Boston insurance agent named Victor de Gerard-a onetime Cossack captain who escaped from Soviet Russia...
...such a day Secretary James and wife almost always dine at the White House. After dinner he usually goes upstairs with his father to the knickknack-filled second-floor study, next to the President's bedroom. Recently, a reporter asked an old-time politician how much influence James exerted on the affairs of the nation...
...named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia's rabid (pro-Roosevelt & proLabor) Record, wrote a graphic, if second hand account...
...Trotsky, through two marriages, the second apparently never publicly recorded, has had four children, now all dead or imprisoned. Daughter Nina died in Russia in 1928, Daughter Zinaida committed suicide in Berlin in 1933 after the Russian arrest of her husband, elder Son Leon died last week and Son Sergei, Soviet engineer, was "arrested" year ago, has not been heard of since...
...jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with summertime diving to keep in trim and help develop good technique. The Ruuds have a younger brother, Asbjorn, 18. who has already outjumped Birger. This is Birger's second visit to the U. S. and this trip is his honeymoon. When asked if he can speak English, his answer is "a little." Those two words are practically the limit of his English vocabulary...