Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...moved without a wrench from the Republican to the Democratic Party. And it was he who broke the political truce when World War II began, by coming out for the Third Term ("the President's talents and training are necessary to steer this country, domestically and in its foreign relationships, to safe harbors"). At that time, despite his long belief in internationalism, his hatred of fascism, he believed the U. S. should give up thought of open aid to Britain and France. Later he read Thorstein Veblen's The Nature of Peace and Imperial Germany, and changed...
Georgia. With a rolling barrage of righteous Cracker votes, red-gallused, spellbinding Eugene ("I'm for peace") Talmadge (who was beaten for the U. S. Senate two years ago) mowed down Dairyman Columbus Roberts, Attorney Abit Nix on his sure-fire advance to a third term as Governor. With his forelock and victory both in his eye, New Deal Baiter Talmadge roared: "I am glad Georgia...
They were drastic. It was admitted that the city's docks, which previously carried one-third of Britain's overseas trade, were mangled beyond use. It was further apparent that railroads, which in default of London's docks would have to carry goods to & from other ports, were occasionally badly snarled. Disease and evacuation would not help this communication problem. Many of London's 14,000 factories, which before the war accounted for one-fifth of Britain's total output and employed one-quarter of her 7,500,000 workers, were knocked out. Within...
Free (?) France. The job he has taken on is no enviable one. For one thing, the Capitol of France is the Hôtel Du Parc. at Vichy, the executive seat Room 73 on the third floor. Nobody has ever had much luck running a country from a hotel room, as Pierre Laval well knows. Furthermore, "Free France" (as Vichy calls the unoccupied two-fifths of the nation) is a land of want and hardship which cannot exist disconnected from the rest of France. Every week some common useful thing disappears from the lives of its people...
Satisfying immediately the national sentiment for preparedness and military training, the Naval V-7 cruises this summer proved unexpectedly popular and successful among college students. Over a third of the first cruise on the U.S.S. Wyoming starting in the middle of July came from Harvard...