Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major U. S. diversion was trying to guess the precise significance of President Coolidge's famed "I do not choose to run." The Senate passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Robert La Follette, against Presidential third terms. On this precedent last week, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, whose Congressional district includes Hyde Park, introduced a resolution that made interesting reading for his most famed constituent "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents . . . in retiring . . . after their second term . . . has become by common concurrence a part...
Fortnight ago, Bob Wagner's veteran slum-clearing measure came to bat for the third time. Backed by such assorted powers as President Roosevelt, the conservative New York Times and the tory New York Herald Tribune, the bill looked like a sure thing. Sponsor Wagner crowed: "There is practical unanimity throughout the country in favor of the measure. . . . There was practically no opposition to the bill in the hearings before the committee...
...bonds & interest, the Government would chip in up to $20,000,000 a year-an outright subsidy, but a trifle compared to the cost of other Federal efforts to aid the underprivileged. Only tenants qualifying for the new houses would be the rock-bottom 15% of the lower third which President Roosevelt has labeled "ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed"-about 175,000 families earning some $50 a month and paying about $5 rent per room...
...true, here was something that might mark a turning point in the war, but the 200,000 shrank on inspection. Hardworking General Pozas was able to lead a Leftist offensive, but like all the rest it petered out before the third morning with no definite advantage...
Adolf Hitler exploded indignantly when Carl von Ossietzky, famed German pacifist, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while still a prisoner of the Third Reich (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). The decision of the awarders was reviled as "an insult to the German people." Nazis were forbidden thereafter to accept a Nobel Prize, were told that in future the Government would award similar prizes for Germans only...