Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tempered, red-faced Virginian (distant kinsman of Confederate General Jubal A. Early), a onetime newspaperman himself, and President Roosevelt's press secretary since 1933, he has also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them up. But none of these compared with his act last week...
Thomas E. Dewey: "[The third-term movement] was conceived in secrecy, nourished on cynicism and reared in arrogance to its ugly maturity by the most corrupt elements of American political life...
Cartoonist Percy Crosby ("Skippy"): "The only time I ever shall bend a knee to a third-term impostor will be before a firing squad...
Northeastern managed to stage off Harvard threats in the second quarter, but in the third the Jayvees clicked again when Summers made a beautiful coffin-corner kick. A bad Northeastern return enabled Harvard to take possession on the enemy twenty-yard stripe, and after a series of short plays, Summers scored again and made good his conversion...
Huskies Score in Third...