Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President Garner and others last week dissuaded West Virginia's anti-Roosevelt young Senator Rush Holt from introducing a resolution to put the Senate on record against a third term. Such resolutions were passed to head off third terms for Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge. Reason for Garner & Co.'s delay: lack of a sufficiently impressive majority just yet for the resolution...
...imponderable which Mr. Lewis declines to define so long as an implied third-party threat may be useful in swaying the big parties...
...With that much money, WPA can give work to 2,000,000 clients, one-third less than the 1939 average. But $125,000,000 of it was earmarked for PWA, which is required to hire only 25% of its labor from Relief rolls. Off WPA's 2,000,000 that will knock 170,000 workers...
...half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families of the crew and the world: "The submarine Phénix has been missing for 36 hours; all hope is lost." For the third time within a month a big modern submarine of a democratic navy had made a routine dive and somehow settled to the bottom. The U. S. S. Squalus lost 26 men, the British submarine Thetis, 99. The Phénix'?, toll...
Last week German troops began to pour into the Tatra Mountains near the Polish frontier. Quickly rumors spread that Slovakia (whose autonomy Germany has guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...