Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third Day. What Their Majesties had seen in the first whirlwind two days was mostly quaint, Arcadian stuff-a Frenchy people curious, appreciative but not essentially King-loving in the British manner. Beef-eating Ottawa more than made up for this...
...ceremonial ended when El Caudillo motored 30 miles west of Madrid to the vast and gloomy Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial. There, in a large hall adjoining what were once the monastery's royal apartments, Generalissimo Franco received the diplomatic corps. Thus ceremonially ended Spain's third and bloodiest civil war of modern times...
RUSSIA The Congress of the Supreme Council of Soviets meets in a vast gold & marble room of the Kremlin that once held the throne of the Tsar. This week it meets again. Reorganized under the Constitution of 1936, this is its third meeting in its present form, its eleventh since its organization in 1922. If this meeting makes more news than its predecessors, it will be, not because of its deliberations, but because it is addressed by Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin...
...opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first speech to the 1,143 people who make up the main governmental body of the Soviet Union...
...whose record begins, "A. N. Bach has lived a long and beautiful life." There is Alexander Bussy-gin, 32, who was so electrified during the Stakhanov movement that he forged 1,001 crankshafts in one shift (675 was the norm), 1,005 the next, 1,015 the third...