Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solidarity Forever is the theme song but far from the theme of the United Automobile Workers. C. I. O.'s third largest union* and most obstreperous problem child. Last week Solidarity Forever boomed from the throats of 1,000 U. A. W. men convoked in rump convention at Toledo by the supporters of the five U. A. W. officials who were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch...
...wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short. She took another, got closer. The third ball plopped on the green, rolled 5 ft. 6 in. from the cup. Asked her handicap. Golfer Lawrence explained: "My handicap is the ball...
...LeClair Ickes and his bride were having fun in Alaska, 2 of his kin were having fun at the 11th annual reunion of the Clan Ickes at Ickesberg, Pa. Sister Julia came on from Altoona. Distant Cousin Bill, a $1,300 clerk in Cousin Harold's PWA, and Third Cousin Patrick, a $1,620 clerk in his National Park Service, came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling of a stone marker honoring Nicholas...
...Wiinner of the tournament was a Mrs. Wray Griffith. Her hole-in-one was the first made by a woman, the third by anyone, in the tournament's six years...
...Agriculture's official estimate of a 2,566,221,000 bu. 1938 corn crop meant that the harvest (plus the carryover) will be 27,000,000 bu. short of an "excessive supply"; hence there will be no referendum to give farmers an opportunity to get marketing quotas imposed. Third item last week on the Department of Agriculture's busy calendar was its estimate of an 11,988,000-bale cotton crop, 7,000,000 bales below 1937's bumper yield, but 700,000 bales above the average unofficial forecasts. Average spot prices fell...