Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker of the South Carolina House, who in 1926 came within 5,000 votes of unseating Senator "Cotton Ed." Obedient to Democratic custom, these three toured the State together, taking turns on the same stumps at tearing each other...
...Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless, that at Ajaccio in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, an oration in honor of the first Bonaparte was pronounced by Navy Minister...
...extraordinary meeting. No one questions that powerful President Cárdenas has been the most popular, most personally democratic, most politically radical of the 45 presidents whom Mexico has had in 114 years. But, whereas Franklin Roosevelt will have to break solemn precedents to run for a third term, Lázaro Cárdenas to run for a second term would have to break not only the Mexican Constitution (for which there is plenty of precedent) but his own word. He has repeatedly pledged himself to retire in 1940 when his six-year term expires...
Year ago the Mexican budget was nominally balanced, and the Treasury forecast an "anticipated surplus" for 1938. But when the President confiscated all foreign oil properties (TIME, March 28), Mexico lost her oil receipts, her third biggest single source of revenue, one out of every 15 pesos of Treasury income. The State Railways and numerous State-operated industries, notably sugar refining, are also doing badly. Shoes are a pet industry with President Cárdenas, who hopes that some day everyone in Mexico will have shoes, and once at a public meeting gave away 300 pairs. Last week the output...
...week's end. President Davis was re-elected to a third term, beating Chicago's vivacious Lillian Herstein, 336 to 274. Well pleased at the convention's harmony, the teachers' president had other reasons for celebration. A free lance since he was fired from Yale two years ago and became an academic freedom case, Professor Davis announced to the convention that in September he would begin a new job, as head of a department of human relations in an unnamed eastern university...