Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
...Klondike's" temperature rose to more than 150° F. in the "treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
...hurrying military parade four specimens of a completely new heavy mobile gun. Each gun appeared to have a crew of about 40 and sped past in five sections, each rolling on rubber tires and pulled by a heavy tractor. First section, the gun carriage; second, the gun cradle; third, the immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power exclaimed: "I have seen plenty of guns like that on shipboard...
...Third on our popularity list was Phillips Brooks House work. The distinguished reputation which the House has for all kinds of social work is well deserved, and it is constantly branching...
...American Clint Frank brought his undefeated Elis to Soldiers Field last year with the knowledge that the toughest encounter of their schedule awaited them. The Crimson opened early when end Don Daughtern took a flat pass in the end zone to register. In the third period the Frank attack unfolded. Down the field marched the Elis to deadlock the score...