Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...happy to bursting point. The tension in the house had relaxed. Down the Albany Post Road tootled and whammed a fife, drum and bugle corps, behind them a straggling crowd of 500 villagers, carrying red railroad flares. Newsreelmen lit brilliant white flares, and Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park, first third-term President of the U. S., came out on the stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied by Wife Eleanor and Mother Sara, he had wisecracked with persistent New York News Photographer...
This week's election for a third term in the White House was no ordinary election; there would be neither space nor time now for the ordinary aftermath of victory. Not because the U. S. wanted a third term, but because the country faced one of the most threatening crises in its history, had the U. S. people assigned Franklin Roosevelt his staggering task...
...said "Only the people themselves can draft a President" and a majority of the people had indeed drafted him-in spite of the third-term tradition. That in itself was an expression of faith greater than any American had ever received...
...only ten minutes old, but their beloved Big Red had already crossed Columbia's goal line once, had just intercepted a Columbia pass, and there they were on the visitors' 20-yd. line. Go they did - for another touchdown in the second quarter, two more in the third. As twilight settled above Cayuga's waters, Cornell had scored its fifth straight victory this season...
...years exhibitors-especially independents-have objected. In 1927 Iowa's Smith Wildman Brookhart introduced the Senate's first anti-block booking bill. Last of 17 successors-none of which passed-was the third Neely Bill. Movie lobbyists kept it at bay until 1939, when the Senate jammed it through in two days. Hollywood lobbyists quaked when Sam Rayburn, Democratic House leader, objected to Frank Capra's biting Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, blurted, "It won't do the movies any good." Nevertheless they stopped the Neely Bill in the House...