Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...suggesting that the smearing had actually been done by Mr. George's friend Mr. Arkwright; no SEC party concerned had officially mentioned the Senator. In Washington a telephone line soon connected SEC Chairman Jerome Frank and Candidate Willkie, who might well have considered himself the target of a third underhand stone. Canny, calculating Jerome Frank's first administrative tenet is to lay off avowed foes of SEC whenever possible. Up to now, in line with this strategy, he has generally laid off Mr. Willkie. Chairman Frank did his best to assure Mr. Willkie that no stone had been...
...turned into a blood bath by poor planning-Mr. Churchill this time took no chances on lack of preparation, manpower, support. Germany's initial invading forces outside the Oslo area could not be more than 15,000 men, scattered from Narvik to Stavanger, of which perhaps one-third were based on Trondheim. Observers in London estimated the Allied Expeditionary Force's first wave as at least three divisions (30-45,000), exclusive of naval and marine personnel. All these were reported landed in the Trondheim area. But if it was true that the Allies...
...ordered to register. Swedes became sufficiently conscious of the Nazi penetration to organize a private boycott of German goods. In 1935 anti-German Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler got an act passed to end foreign control, through dummy corporations, of Swedish industries. It was aimed at Krupp's one-third ownership of the Bofors works. (Just before the act went through, Krupp sold out to a Swedish group headed by Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren.) Junkers had to give up a manufacturing affiliate in Sweden, but Germans remained on the directorates of other big Swedish firms, and the German investment...
Forty members of the Zeta Alpha Society of Wellesley College are to be entertained by the Pierian Sodality next Monday afternoon in the rooms on the third floor of the north entry of Matthews...
...three games listed for the day's activity Dartmouth, champion in 1938 and heralded as one of the stronger nines in the race for the 1940 pennant, will clash with unbeaten Cornell at Ithaca. Yale will be host to Pennsylvania at New Haven. In the third contest on the day's card Harvard will play Princeton at Tigertown...