Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected by proportional representation. A few days before, counters in the four other boroughs had finished their share of the job. The preferential ballot is conceived so that if a voter's first choice candidate fails to win, his vote is counted for his second or third choice candidate until the offices up for contest are filled. One of the last candidates to be eliminated in The Bronx was Headmaster Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country School. Exulted defeated Schoolmaster Hackett: "Proportional representation is the greatest advance in democratic processes in years. The system is here to stay...
There were extraordinary doings on the third floor of Washington's Willard Hotel one day last week. A score of photographers squatted in the corridor with lenses trained on the elevator. Newsreel men fidgeted with their cameras. Reporters milled around in the glare of light reflectors. Suddenly the door opened, an elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands...
...ship-news reporters, a Fox Movietone Newsreel cameraman, and a Wide World photographer named Kenneth Lucas, assigned to pick up a package and get a shot of the Czechs. Photographer Lucas was on the deck trying to find the Commission when he spied a familiar figure rushing down the third-class gangplank. Recognizing Mrs. Lindbergh, he pursued her onto the dock, contrived to get a few blurred shots before the Colonel and his wife, leaving their baggage to be called for later, got into a car and drove away...
However, the new Belgian Cabinet (see p. 23) and His Majesty were most uneasy-and young King Leopold suddenly and for the third time this year rushed to England...
...good city read much, but much that they read is not good. While quality magazines have a large circulation in such a city, so do the confession magazines. Many radios also is a tip-top sign. "The good citizen may not be terribly moral or intellectual, but even third-rate reading and listening to the radio replaces cheap gossip, dirty stories and hanging around saloons...