Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the war but by Mr. Roosevelt's reaction to the war. . . . The war is ... a subject on which, because his mind is clear, his convictions are resolute. The war therefore has brought out the best that was in him, and he has become what he might always have been...
...Deal days, Justice Holmes, reading an 8-to-1 decision holding constitutional a Virginia law requiring sterilization of third-generation defectives, dryly noted, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough. Justice Butler dissents...
After 70 hours, while farmers profited by selling parking space to onlookers, Dr. Poulter and the crew managed to get Penguin back on the road. Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's third South Pole expedition, all set to sail, impatiently awaited the monster in Boston. The little motorship North Star, loaded with sled dogs and supplies, was due to shove off for Philadelphia, where she was to take aboard airplanes, proceed to a New Year's Day rendezvous in Little America with the expedition's flagship, Bear...
...Cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo praised Franklin Roosevelt to the 1940 skies, demanded a third term for him. Mr. McAdoo's eulogy (he is the New Deal beneficiary of a $25,000 job as head of the American President Lines-second highest paid Government post) roused no ripple of surprise in Washington...
...last week as it left Singapore harbor. William ("The Great") Nicola, U. S. magician, lost tons of paraphernalia but he, his wife & troupe were saved. A gang of 137 Chinese deportees had to be turned loose from their prison in Sirdhana's forward hold, recaptured later. The third officer of a Japanese steamer moored nearby rushed to the rescue in a small boat. Blamed for the disaster was a recently derelict British mine, broken loose from the Singapore naval base defense field...