Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...darting Eleanor Roosevelt was in California last week. "I see no reason for our entering the war-as yet," she said in Los Angeles. "How unnecessary," she wrote (in My Day) of a headlined demand that her husband give an ironclad pledge of peace. Interviewed about Third Term (see p. 19), she said: "My own personal opinion-and not as the wife of a President-is that except in extraordinary circumstances we should stick to our tradition. ..." She lectured. She stayed at Son Jimmy's Beverly Hills apartment, regretfully recorded that he was away (on movie business). Accustomed...
Last week the President: > Said a good word for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for whose third Antarctic Expedition, still in progress, the House last month refused to vote an additional $250,000 (voted last year: $340,000). Unless Congress reconsiders, the President tutted, 50-odd Byrdmen may be left high & cold in the Antarctic without their Admiral, who last week was headed home on the flagship Bear...
...remember that Calvin Coolidge, of all people, once wanted him as Secretary of Labor in his Cabinet. Last week, out of hundreds of columns and editorials condemning Lewis' threat of a Third Party, only Columnists Ernest Lindley (Washington Post) and Ludwell Denny (Scripps-Howard) realized that Mr. Lewis was really talking about 1944, that he believes the politically disinherited U. S. groups must have some point to rally...
...starting battery for the local forces will find Captain Tom Healey hurling and Bob Fulton on the receiving end. Fulton held down the backstop post last season but was shifted to third this year in an attempt to make room for Charlie Spreyer, Sophomore aspirant for the post. Dissatisfied with the receiving on the spring trip, Stahl returned Fulton to his old berth at the beginning of this week filling in the empty hot corner spot with either Dick Whittemore or Burgy Ayres...
...generally approved as President, over 60 per cent favoring him, although he showed a slight drop in popularity over the last ten months. However, 39.3 per cent would like to see him run for a third term, which is an increase of almost 8 per cent in the last ten months...