Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Things went so well in 1938 that the Boss ordered Newshawk Godwin re-elected in 1939. But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term. Last week, vacationing in Coral Gables, Boss Young suddenly decided against it, telephoned his hatchetman, knife-witted George Durno of International News Service...
...plutocrat Major General Karl Rudolf Walden, member of the Defense Council, close friend and adviser to Baron Mannerheim. Known as Finland's cellulose king and one of her wealthiest citizens, he is editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...
Germany, the third partner in the game, had played her last trump three weeks before when her economic expert and premier promiser Dr. Karl Clodius arrived on the Italian scene just in time to scotch an Anglo-Italian cannons-and-airplane-engines-for-coal deal. Now, having maintained that a neutral that submits to British control is no longer a neutral and is fair game for Nazi submarines and bombers, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop realized that a ticklish situation was bound to arise if the Axis partner were compelled to knuckle down to British seapower. As though to lend...
...Will the coming of spring bring a great offensive on the Western Front?" Last week, as the first third of the dread month of March slipped away, and the curtain was poised for a fall on the whole northern theatre of the war, this question was asked and answered by the man whose own opinion was more likely than any other outsider's to influence High Commands and War Offices-Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart...
Runner-up to the Crimson captain in the final scoring was the Princeton junior, Ned Parke, who accounted for 50 5-12 points in the sprints and middle distances. He took 8 firsts, 2 seconds and a third and competed on one winning medley and free-style relay. Another Crimson sprinter, Jim Curwen, finished third with 48 points, while Navy's Gordon Wiley and Jim Conger, both sophomores, were fourth and fifth, respectively, with...