Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seaman. Australian Harry Bridges, C.I.O.'s wiry West Coast maritime boss, entered the U. S. legally in 1920, twice applied for first citizenship papers, twice allowed his application to lapse. For Harry Bridges, this was a serious mistake. By the time he made a third application in 1936-two years after San Francisco's bloody General Strike-Secretary Perkins was besieged with requests to deport Australian Bridges as an undesirable alien. This year the hue has been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist...
...first returns began coming in, Candidate Camp ran a pathetic third. Swooping along in first place with the votes of his farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by the early counts, but running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would...
...Against the machines of the Senators unPurged, and reinstalled for another six years, the Purge machinery can hardly be expected to nominate delegates to the Democratic national convention of 1940. To perpetuate his Liberal program, in person or by proxy, Franklin Roosevelt must control that convention or found a third party and with it carry the country. After a Purge that did not purge, these tasks looked more formidable than before. Senator George sounded almost as though he were issuing an ultimatum to Franklin Roosevelt when he gently said last week: "All great Democrats bow to the will...
...General Herbert R. O'Conor. So close were totals of county delegates instructed to vote for them at the State nominating convention Sept. 28 that last week after every last ballot had been counted the final decision lay in the result of an Allegheny County recount and the "third-choice" vote of Prince George's County...
...mayor of New York City, better paid ($22,500) than any public executive except the President of the U. S. ($75,000) and the Governor of New York ($25,000), actively governs 7,000,000 people, has the third toughest elective job in the nation. Above it in difficulty, short of the Presidency, only the Governorship of New York is supposed to rank. But other jobs, such as Vice President, Senator or Cabinet member, bring greater kudos. He would be a dull New York mayor indeed who did not tour the U. S. to give voters outside of New York...