Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sons, came back strong. Last fall Phil La Follette, running for his fourth term as Governor, was beginning to think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third of the States, Wisconsin turned around and elected a Republican, who clearly (against Wisconsin's background) suggested what may happen in the nation if and when the Roosevelt New Deal is turned out by a Republican leader. Last week, under Julius Peter Heil, 62, "self-made industrialist, hard-headed businessman," Wisconsin...
...days" and, at first, attempted to keep the charges on which the prisoners will be sentenced a secret. Finally, they approved a communiqué which announced that the defendants had "agitated against the political and economic aims of the Nazi State and grossly insulted the leading personalities of the Third Reich...
Divorced. Constance Talmadge Netcher, 38, oldtime silent cinemactress; from her third husband, Townsend Netcher, wealthy Chicago socialite; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with its 11,000 items (including 84 brands of coffee), its 550,000-square-foot Chicago plant, its warehouses in 18 cities...
...third George Fisher Baker grew up inconspicuously as many a rich boy does. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...