Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the week, Mr. Saburo Ohta, third secretary of the Japanese embassy in Moscow, arrived in Tokyo, having crossed Siberia by railroad and taken ship at Vladivostok, not far from the battle line. Said he: "The central authorities of the Soviet Union are following a non-aggravation policy. After having been repulsed with heavy losses the Soviet troops will not attempt more counterattacks. During my trip through Siberia all was quiet and I saw no signs of disturbance in Vladivostok...
...third day the British mediator uncorked his first proposal. He declared that before he could attempt to advise he must understand the problems of Czechoslovakia, must study them for at least a fortnight. Therefore, he proposed that the Government and the Sudetens stop negotiating while he studied. To this provisional Pax Runciman they agreed. Instead of discussing the disputed Minorities Statute, the Czechoslovak Parliament met for only 20 minutes-its first meeting since the war crisis was averted on May 21 -then meekly adjourned indefinitely...
...Rumania an enlightened Minorities Statute. Between sunup and sundown one day it gave a new status to 1,568,000 Magyars, 900,000 Jews, 790,000 Russians, 792,000 Germans, 400,000 Slavs, 290,000 Bulgars and 170,000 Turks, who together with smaller groups make up nearly one-third of Carol II's subjects...
...just out, that's all," said Mickey Cochrane, almost as stunned as when he was beaned last summer. "Believe me, it was a distinct surprise," said 46-year-old Delmar Baker as he was upped from his third-base coaching job to become the new manager of the Tigers...
...editorial motto of all Hearstlings, high and low: "The Chief says-." Last month Hearst editors and writers found themselves with a new editorial attitude when the entire Hearst chain editorially chided the Saturday Evening Post for cartooning President Roosevelt's spending program as an attempt to buy a third term : "It is true that Mr. Roosevelt wants and needs prosperity, and is trying earnestly to bring it about. . . . Why put obstacles in his way when he is going in the direction we all desire? "Who, after all, is qualified to criticize him?" In 1936, when Candidate Roosevelt presumably desired...