Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion last week reported 69% of the electorate against a third term for Franklin Roosevelt, down 1% since December, up 6% since the summer...
...heralded the Nazis' use of the Jews for expansion purposes. Osservatore Romano, semi-official organ of the Roman Catholic Church, challenging the Fiihrer's statement that no religious persecution exists in Germany, declared that "liberty has lost all meaning in the ecclesiastical and religious fields in the Third Reich...
...Hoffmann. A little man stood up, gave the Nazi salute, shouted: "Verboten!" The orchestra switched to My Hero, from Oscar Straus's The Chocolate Soldier. Up sprang the little man again. The orchestra burst into Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The little man jumped up for the third time, screamed "Verboten...
Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
Scheming, ambitious third son of a Dutch sailor, Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding quit his job in an Amsterdam bank at 22 to seek his fortune with The Netherlands Trading Society in the East Indies. He quit the Society to seek his fortune with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was director of a little company with a big name: The Royal Dutch Company for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies. When Kessler died in 1900, Royal Dutch had wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets all over the East. Deterding succeeded...