Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a convention delegate offered a Roosevelt-Third-Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on record against all amendments to the Wagner Act, and against diversion of Federal funds from social services to Rearmament (but did not oppose Rearmament as such). It demanded more Relief, more Housing, more and better Planning in the name of greater production, greater employment, greater consumer purchasing power...
...Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, an off-&-on Republican, issued invitations to Republican Governor-elect James of Pennsylvania and other interested parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
...week (see p. 10), actual help was brought by Miss Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) to the Jew most nearly concerned, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan. Neither he nor anyone else denies that he shot and killed in the German Embassy at Paris, after asking to see the Ambassador, Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath...
Autonomous status for the province of Slovakia was provided by a bill which the Chamber passed and the Senate will approve this week. The Chamber likewise approved an autonomy measure for the third part of the federated Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly Ruthenia). Meanwhile, Polish and Hungarian bands, still hoping to split the province between their nations, last week crossed its borders and carried on terrorist attacks against the Government...
...England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third the duties on rice, apples, pears, other canned fruits. Britain also boosted the quota for hams and gave guarantees that ham and cotton would remain duty free...