Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief significance of the election was to test the efficiency of the Chicago Democratic machine, the Horatius that has kept downstate Illinoisans from pushing the third most populous State in the U. S. over the bridge to its "normal" Republicanism. In 1932 the machine held Herbert Hoover down to 41% of the Chicago vote. In 1936 Alf Landon was shaved to 34%. Last week Republicans got 43.7%. That augured Republican victory in 1940 and made Dwight Green the leading Republican candidate for Governor of Illinois...
...land of milk and honey; their faith necessary to carry on is built on expectation of a Promised Land, where they will live in "little white houses in among the orange trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become undeceived. The third of a million new arrivals are herded, persecuted, and starved into working in the fruit and cotton fields for mere crusts of bread. As Ma and their sometime preacher Casy say, it is only their anger that keeps them on their feet. The ranch owners thereby store up for themselves...
...well-functioning infield has Buckley at first, Lynch at second, Finogan at short, and Whittemore at third. With Clay pitching, the garden patrol finds Reddy in left, Rice in contre, and Pitchford in right...
More than 200 Massachusetts school and college teachers will be the guests of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers on Saturday at the third annual conference of the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers...
Leaving a week before Easter Sunday, the squad entrained directly for Philadelphia, where, on Tuesday, they lost to Penn 8-3. Jess Willard played a brilliant game, scoring in the second and third periods, while Doug Anderson gained the third point in the last canto...