Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know any more than you do. I have never heard him mention it. He has never even hinted it." So said Frank lin Delano Roosevelt's well-schooled, 83-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, queried in Portland, Me. about her son's attitude toward a third time as President...
...play golf at the Cyprus Point Club. There she registered as "Mrs. Charlie Chaplin." While Hollywood wondered whether this at last was tacit admission of what Holly wood had long tacitly taken to be fact-that Paulette Goddard is and has been for several years Charlie Chaplin's third wife*-the talkative cinemactor once more re fused to discuss "our personal affairs." Neither would "Mrs. Chaplin...
...Charlie Chaplin's first wife was onetime Cinemactress Mildred Harris, who divorced him in 1920. His second wife, Lita Grey, who bore him two sons, divorced him in 1927. Last week at Manhattan Beach, Calif., Lita Grey, since married and divorced again, was herself married a third time to a 29-year-old cinemagent, Arthur...
...pilots, dashing, mustached Texan Tom Oates Hardin, vice-president of the Airline Pilots' Association, veteran of 10,000 flying hours with American Airlines; and Alabama-born Lieut.-Colonel Sumpter Smith, War flier, aeronautical engineer, since 1936 director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the WPA. The third Safety Board member was not named. Among these appointments, peeled political eyes could discover no one recommended for appointment by dictator-fearing McCarran. But if Franklin Roosevelt gave the back of his hand to Rebel Pat McCarran, it was at the same time a helping hand to U. S. aviation...
...Between 1870 and 1936 prices came down and wages went up so that the amount of goods a wage-earner could buy with his week's wages was multiplied two and a half times, though working hours were meanwhile cut by one-third...