Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roomers in the tenement at No. 328 Henry Street, on Manhattan's lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
Speaking his piece on the third and last day, Herr Hitler (whose surprising honored guest was George Astachov, Russian Chargeé d'Affaires) was a little more critical. He lamented that no artists had recorded any of the great events in National Socialist Germany with skill, talent and force comparable with paintings of other epochs...
...good idea of what is considered high art in the Third Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler's (President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer...
...planked out $25,009,388 for a whopping rush order of airplane engines. To Allison Engineering Co., a newcomer in high-powered aeronautics, went the fattest slice: $15,080,261. Old-established Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Pratt & Whitney (already fat with Army contracts) came off second and a poor third (Wright: $8,975,317; Pratt & Whitney $953,810). Reason: Army men favored the Allison 1,200-h.p. engine (TIME, Jan. 30), whose twelve inline cylinders, snug as a whippet's ears, made it the last word in streamlined high-output power...
Marriage revealed. Raymond Massey, Canadian-born actor (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), and Socialite Mrs. Dorothy Ludington Whitney; his third, her second; in Manhattan, four days after Actress Adrienne Allen divorced him (TIME, July...