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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Military aviation is one of San Antonio's biggest industries. Randolph Field, "West Point of the Air," is there. Maury Maverick was for consolidating the Army & Navy's air forces into a third major arm of national defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Unbrcmded Bullfrog | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...look at them, accused Quin & Co. of a long list of offenses at least one of which -padding the city payroll with 555 voters -brought Quin an indictment (later quashed). Mayor Quin replied by branding Maury Maverick a Communist, a C. I. 0.-lover, an irresponsible rabble rouser. A third candidate, 29-year-old Leroy Jeffers, entered the race shouting that beneath Maury Maverick's white shirt was a Red undershirt. That let Maury go into his War dance about his Argonne shell wound, crying, "That undershirt was red [with Maverick blood] so that little boys like Leroy Jeffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Unbrcmded Bullfrog | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Last week in Europe there were a few signs that fear of immediate war was ebbing. In London war-insurance rates were cut. Belgium discharged one-third of the technical experts recently called to the colors at Antwerp. Generalissimo Francisco Franco demobilized 200,000 Fascist troops. Moreover, it was thought that Dictator Benito Mussolini would scarcely let his beloved daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, sail for Brazil if he were on the warpath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sleep on Haversacks! | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Germany's internal economy. Deliberately geared for war for the past five years, is it an economy that can withstand peace? Is further territorial expansion a necessity for Germany's economic survival? And if that expansion should bring Germany into armed conflict, could the economy of the Third Reich withstand a prolonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wehrwirtschaft | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

This is the last home League contest for the Stahlmen until the Class Day game with Yale on June 21. It is also the third engagement of the week for the nine--they take on their fourth opponent, Holy Cross, at Worcester tomorrow...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: STAHL NINE FACES VISITING QUAKERS | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

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