Word: third
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in England to explore industrial conditions for Franklin Roosevelt, replied last week to a British query on his third-term intentions...
...political herds. No believer in griping party purges, Jim Farley's mission was to soothe feelings already hurt in primary fights, encourage sheep and goats to stampede all together in November. His first stop was at Fond du Lac, Wis., his second at Sheboygan, Wis., his third at Clinton, Iowa. Altogether, Shepherd James Farley planned to stop, look & listen in more than 100 towns and cities, mostly in the Midwest and Northwest. His farthest stop: Seward, Alaska. One of his most important stops: this week's national convention of Young Democrats (5,000 delegates) at Seattle...
...Commission, member of the New York Public Library Board, is as long, as ascetic, as elegantly bearded as an El Greco cardinal. One day in 1934 his long face lengthened further when he came upon an artist in the Public Library earnestly measuring certain unfilled panels on the third floor. The artist told him that the Public Works Art Project would like to fill these spaces with some murals. Mr. Stokes said pessimistically that he would speak to the board...
...different from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring to the prize ring, awarded him a third-place yellow ribbon in the five-gaited saddle class...
...demitasse came round, everyone knew what to charge for steel. In 1911, when the Government was ready to jump on this arrangement, the industry adopted a new procedure. Since then, whenever the Government has jumped on steel price policies, the industry has been one jump ahead. Last week the third such jump was in progress...