Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposed by the House as money for a "joy ride" (TIME, June 12), but shoved through with the third deficiency bill by Senate pressure, $340,000 became available last week to send Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd back to Little America, claim a lot more of it for the U. S. The far-roving mind of Franklin Roosevelt was captivated by Admiral Byrd's arguments for this venture and last week, after a map session at his desk, he ordered the expedition to proceed by early October. In on the planning were Commandant (Rear Admiral) Russell Randolph Waesche...
...then one of the debutantes, beautifully dressed in fringed and beaded buckskin and wearing beaded moccasins, would steal away and snatch a few minutes' sleep, returning when the beat of the tom-toms quickened. On the third day the Apaches and their guests amused themselves with baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. On the third night they danced again...
Three months after this third Neutrality Act, Japanese bombs were again bursting in Shanghai. Far from declaring war, however, the Japanese insisted they were waging peace. So far as the Neutrality Act was concerned, there was no war in China unless President Roosevelt proclaimed it. To date he has not done so, and Congress in general has not been disposed to criticize him for his failure...
...Japan's war dead. At noonday there was a moment of silence. There were no parades, no brass bands, no excitement. Correspondents described the atmosphere in the Japanese capital as one of quiet resignation, with stronger indications than ever before that the Japanese people, going into the third year of war, would welcome peace. It was the second anniversary of the start of the "China incident," and there was plainly nothing much to celebrate...
Modern Mongols. To secure its vital flank, the Soviet Union in 1922-24 helped the herdsmen of Outer Mongolia drive out their ruling princes and establish the Mongolian People's Republic with a population of 800,000 and an area of one million square miles, almost one-third as large as all Canada. Under Russian tutelage the Mongol revolutionaries have attempted to transform into a semi-modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks...