Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard pressed to find money to finance the Third Reich's armament race. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week prepared to adopt outright thievery as an economy policy. The multi-uniformed economic dictator signed a decree providing for confiscation of practically all Jewish property throughout Greater Germany...
...royal wedding on the third day went off without anyone taking a pot shot at the King. As muezzins wailed from the minarets, the tall, dark-haired Countess, dressed in a white satin gown, mounted a coach drawn by four prancing white stallions, a gift from the Hungarian Government, drove through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament...
...much the same way as the other passengers on the Overland Limited, to which his car was attached. Accompanied by his favorite pet, a nine-year-old pony named Pumpkin, and his trainer, laconic Tom Smith, who slept on a home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully fed only water and hay lest he get trainsick. Unlike most thoroughbreds, who are so nervous that they sleep standing...
Josephus Daniels, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, and Addie Bagley Daniels celebrated their soth wedding anniversary. Said Addie Daniels: "My husband has four loves: first, newspapers, next, the Democratic Party, third, the church, and fourth...
...Commission to make a new deal, Panama Pacific lost its annual $450,000 mail subsidy and got nothing in its place. Beginning nine weeks ago, the Panama Canal changed toll charges in such a way that Panama Pacific's annual expenses would have been increased about $37,000. Third coffin nail was a rusty West Coast labor problem...