Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bureau. Last week he let smugglers know how dangerous life can be by shooting 299 out of a possible 300 to defend his individual championship. He also shot a 296 and two perfect 300s, led his five-man Bureau of Customs team to win the Morgenthau Trophy for the third year. Most of the shooting was done with .38-calibre revolvers with 4-in. barrels, slow and quick fire at 15 and 25 yards. In the round permitting .45-calibre guns with barrels up to 10 in., Inspector Echols was tied at 300 by his teammate, Customs Inspector Erne...
...secretary-pressagent, Journalist William Hard, to G. 0. P. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, it portrayed a streamlined elephant, charging and trumpeting, tusks up, ears back, tail flying, was inscribed, "Let's G. O. Places." In August 1927, Calvin Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip of paper, reading "I do not choose to run." Last week, on the eleventh anniversary of that occasion, Third Termite Charles Michelson, grizzled pressagent of the Democratic National Committee, declared: ". . . Franklin Roosevelt would take a case of hives rather than four more years...
...Senator Smathers of New Jersey: "I have but one political ambition left ... to help elect President Roosevelt for a third term. . . . There is no one big enough and strong enough to carry...
...Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska (advocate of a single six-year term for Presidents): "He [Franklin Roosevelt] thinks he could carry out his program better than anyone else. In this situation there will always be people around who will urge him to seek a third term...
...some years has been the leading exporter among the nations of the world. . . . We export, on the average, more than one-third of our total production of leaf tobacco, half of our cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of our total production of canned and dried fruits. Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum...