Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Germans came over last week by the scores and by the hundreds, as Londoners were treated to their twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third consecutive night bombings with no prospect of letup, it became increasingly clear that the Luftwaffe was going for definite targets. By day, the Germans hit not only at and around London docks, power plants, gas works, railroad stations, telephone exchanges, but also went with renewed vigor after ports, industrial cities in the Midlands and north country, even after isolated plants in the open countryside. Late in the afternoon, squads tried to start fires near objectives...
Cheeriest part of the hospital is a children's ward. Last year patients ranged from eight weeks to 14 years, almost a third had cancers, the rest benign growths. Last year, the ward provided its 68 patients with sliding boards, play tent, electric trains, a miniature fireplace with space for stockings at Christmastime. Last week, the children were busily painting pictures for Columbus...
Onetime editor-owner of The Nation, lifetime liberal, Oswald Garrison Villard appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to argue that third terms are a bad thing and all Presidents are greedy for them. His prime example: "Despite President Coolidge's 'I do not choose to run,' he threw himself on his bed in an agony of disappointment and was unapproachable for two days after the news reached him that Mr. Hoover had been nominated...
...Manhattan's Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered...
...Texans wondered which lay more heavily on FTC minds, purgatives or politics. Paced by Politico Hal's key-noting speech at the recent State Democratic Convention (held in Crazy Hotel), the Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...