Word: thrice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city now has over 2,000 blood sellers registered (not yet licensed) by the Donor Bureau (sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine), individual hospitals and private blood agencies. An estimate adds 3,000 more to the registered list. The total of 5,000 is thrice the estimated number of a few months ago. Cause of the tripling: the Depression. Sellers get $50 a pint for blood, less 10% to 20% agency commissions...
Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail...
...monarchists mass meeting in Seville last week spoke fiery old Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres Count de Romanones, thrice Prime Minister of Spain before the dictatorship of King Alfonso and the late Don Miguel Primo de Rivera began...
Last week under Prime Minister Steeg five former Prime Ministers consented to serve as ministers: Aristide Briand (Foreign Affairs); Georges Leygues (Interior) ; Louis Barthou (War); Paul Painleve (Air); Camille Chautemps (Education). That the great M. Painleve, thrice Prime Minister and often War Minister, should have consented to take the Ministry of Air seemed most significant, for previously the air portfolio has been a trifle infra dig, the prize of lesser statesmen like M. Laurent Eynac...
...Only thrice before has the French Senate felled a Cabinet: Herriot's in 1925, Briand's in 1913, Bourgeois' in 1896. Last week M. Tardieu faced MM. Les Senateurs backed by the prestige of a vote of confidence he had just won in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator...