Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...want Hitlerism in this country. Has everybody in Washington gone hysterical?" "Just think how many young boys' careers will be ruined. This means a year out of their lives." Socialite Mrs. Richard Newton, of Water Mill, L. I., informed the Senator that conscription was camouflage to conceal the Third Term issue. Dr. C. F. Aked (D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.), of Los Angeles, telegraphed: "I thank God for your noble fight against . . death dealing systems of continental Europe where conscription means both syphilis and slavery." Banker John M. Johnston Jr. of Wayne, Pa. objected to having the normal course...
National Committee. So, with all the enthusiasm of a boy chopping wood, the President perforce looked around for a politician, preferably Catholic, who could & would do his Third Term scrubwork. Nobody wanted the job. Leo T. Crowley, Catholic, and able chairman of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was determined to leave Washington to head Standard Gas & Electric Co. Catholic Frank Walker, who was the Party treasurer in 1932, pleaded the pressure of his theatre business and law practice...
...Cunarder Lancastria. She was sunk in mid-June off the French harbor of Saint-Nazaire just after embarking 5,000 British troops and a sprinkling of refugee women & children for evacuation to England. Nine Stukas dived on her, three at a time. The first two waves missed. The third connected, but none of the three planes came out of its dive. All crashed into the sea. One bomb went down the Lancastrians funnel. The liner heeled over, trapping hundreds of victims below decks. The water was filled with floundering survivors when the other planes returned, savagely machine-gunning lifeboats, rafts...
...continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was believed to have even more influence than Lawrence...
Sponsor of this contest was the Society for the Preservation & Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. No mere anything-for-a-laugh letterhead organization, the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. takes itself fairly seriously. Heart and founder of the organization is its Permanent Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, bland, round-faced Tulsa oilman Owen Clifton ("O. C.") Cash. Long addicted to informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed...