Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When James Dalhover walked into our store the third time, not the second time, he addressed his question to me but before I could answer, Walter Walsh told him to "Stick 'em up." Dalhover never fired although I believe it was his first intention to do so and slowly put his hands up. He was marched to the rear of the store where Inspector Hayes put the cuffs...
...word of this did Franklin Roosevelt allow to creep into his public utterances. Business has never been the favorite child in his political family. That place has been, reserved for Business' weaker brother, the underprivileged "one third" of the U. S. population ("ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished"). The President was at pains not to show any signs of changed feelings...
Only ray in this atmosphere of almost universal gloom was the leadership of the peace delegations. Speaking for A. F. of L. at the big oval table on the third floor of the Willard was George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, stocky, 42-year-old head of A. F. of L. railroad department and president of the potent Railway Labor Executives association...
...keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters was at work. When the North Carolina is completed some time in 1941, along with its sister ship the Washington, whose keel will be laid at Philadelphia Navy Yard next spring, the Navy will have...
...State investigate the matter. In puritanical Kansas, sterilization is an old issue. Forty years ago the head of the State School for Insane Youth was accused of sterilizing his charges, never denied doing so. In 1917, Kansas legalized sterilization. Since then 1,750 sterilizations have put the State third highest on the list of 29 which permit such treatment...