Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, however, President Roosevelt gave no sign of disclaiming third term aspirations. In a letter to the Young Democratic clubs, Mr. Roosevelt repeated the gist of his Jackson Day ultimatum to all Democrats (TIME, Jan. 16). Said he: "No victories are won by shooting at each other. There never was and never will be a political party whose policies absolutely fit the views of all its members. Where men are at variance with the course that their party is taking, it seems to me there are only two honorable courses-to join a party that more accurately mirrors their ideas...
...Walter Judd, medical missionary in China, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the adoption of Senator Pittman's plan would be disastrous to China. Said he: "Now we are furnishing Japan 50% of its war materials. One-third of the scrap iron that is being hurled upon civilian populations comes from the United States. Trucks, the most decisive single factor in Japanese advances, are supplied...
...Benjamin then ticked off the names of two Communist members of the Alliance executive board and a third who "used to be." He professed surprise when Republican Richard Wigglesworth of Massachusetts ticked off the names of three more...
Last week Williamsburg's third festival opened in the palace's candlelit ballroom. Guests were escorted from their carriages by pantalooned footmen carrying candle lanterns. Eight evenings of 18th-Century music for "Harpsichord, Hautboy, Violins and Violoncello" were scheduled. At week's end 20th-Century visitors were unconsciously bowing and reaching for their snuffboxes...
...night last week, while she was being loaded at her dock in Le Havre with art treasures for New York's World's Fair, $15,000,000 in gold for American depositories, fire struck France's third largest ship again. Because the Sûreté Nationale had been warned by an anonymous letter writer that saboteurs were out to sink French Line ships, because fires have become too frequent on French ships to be accidental, Frenchmen felt positive that the burning of the Paris was the work of foreign agents who do not want her used...