Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...these times of great national and international flux and stress, two or more persons cannot meet for 30 seconds on bus or corner without a heated debate ensuing on "the Third Term" or "the Battle of the Bulge...
...Roosevelt. Quick as a counterpunch, his textile workers, clothing workers, hosiery workers, Sidney Hillman of his executive board, defied him, plumped for a Third Term. John Lewis settled his chin in his neck and glared...
...expel member unions without a vote of the delegates; 3) clean-out of racketeers in A. F. of L.'s ranks. Mr. Green, with the smell of I. A. T. S. E. cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third point better from within than from without. Said Pegler: "The garment workers . . . have begun a fight against . . . criminals in organized labor, and David Dubinsky will deserve credit...
...convicted fortnight ago of defrauding Louisiana of $31,000) for a Federal judgeship. Last week, when Governor Jones was being feted in Washington, pointedly ignoring Senator Ellender, Little Bull's bitterness overflowed. He rushed to the White House, told the President he was going to plead for the Third Term ("the President looked up and smiled broadly"), and flew to the Louisiana convention...
Thumbprints. The third Messiah is no fable; he struggles with fact. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most devoted, most profoundly endowed religious artists whom this century has produced. As such he was, for his generation, one of the focuses of human consciousness. Of what happens to a bearer of such consciousness in time of actual war, this volume of letters is a direct record...