Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Confidently the Third Termites in each State oiled and honed a guillotine...
...Last week the President let pass the deadline for taking his name off Illinois' preferential primary ballot, thereby raising Third Term talk to its highest pitch...
...Vacationing in Massachusetts, the President's personal secretary, Miss Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, gave her reasons for wanting a Third Term: she likes 1) her $5,000-per-year job; 2) her White House apartment (bedroom, living room, bath...
...signs in the shrubbery. Outside, the night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from the windows along Baton Rouge's Third Street; marchers in the parade threw handfuls of aluminum sales-tax tokens in the crowd. Because Earl Long had called Sam Jones "high-hat, sweet-smelling Sam Jones," marchers wore high hats, carried mops. Baton Rouge had seen nothing like it since the Armistice. Neither had Lake Charles, where...
This winter's smoke has been the worst so far. Prodded by the city newspapers (and by ambitions for a third term in 1941) St. Louis' stubborn Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann last December agreed that slow moves for smoke abatement had to be turned into fast moves for smoke elimination, set up a seven-man board to consider new measures...