Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year the U. S. Third Army (there are four "armies" divided geographically) whose turn it was to play the annual U. S. war games, was a mobile army, prepared to fight in the open rather than in the stagnant trenches of 1914-18. Its reconnaissance cars (mechanized cavalry) spurted 75 and 100 miles ahead, keeping tabs with headquarters by two-way radio. Its horsed cavalry rode to battle and sent its mounts back while it did its fighting. Motorized field artillery (still largely the World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place...
...host of Third Termites busily boring in the frame of U. S. politics was last week added the biggest & best to date, no less a personage than Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley. At Mackinac Island, where he went to exhort Michigan Democrats to elect Rooseveltians to Congress, he was asked about his own Presidential ambitions for 1940. Bluntly Jim Farley replied...
...Cartoonist Harold Morton Talburt of the Scripps-Howard chainpapers drew the week's ablest Third Termite cartoon-a paraphrase of Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson's remark of last fortnight that "duty" might compel Franklin Roosevelt to run again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless...
Much to the annoyance of all parties to this agreement, a third Pittsburgh station, bustling KQV, impudently proceeded to pirate not only the broadcasts of the Pirates' out-of-town games, but of home games as well. The Pirates' owners joined NBC and its two sponsors in an appeal to the courts...
...went the rounds of the Grand Circuit this summer Horse Owner Sheppard kept one eye on his own stable, the other on his fellow horsemen's. At Agawam three weeks ago, he saw William Cane's Hambletonian entry, McLin, outstep the highly touted Long Key in the third heat of the American Stake (after a miserable showing in the two previous heats). As quick as a man could say David Harum, Owner Sheppard offered Owner Cane $20,000 for McLin, had him hitched to a Hanover sulky the following week...