Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt. That theme had first been sounded by John Lewis within a year after he poured $500,000 into the 1936 Roosevelt campaign. Last year he arraigned the New Deal for abject domestic failure ("The nation cannot forever continue its appalling drift"). Last January he had fiercely denounced a third term. Last week he finally let himself go. Speaking like an oldtime tragedian, he let his orotund words roll out over three networks, 322 radio stations, to perhaps 25,000,000 listeners...
Then John Lewis shot his last bolt. Said he: "President Roosevelt will not be re-elected for the third term unless he has the overwhelming support of ... labor. If he is, therefore, re-elected ... I will accept the result as a vote of no confidence, and will retire as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at its convention in November...
...fate was settled at Brennero on Oct. 4, when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini planned their drive to the east. For Greece is the key to control of two of the three routes to the east : by land and sea through Turkey, by sea via the Mediterranean. Even the third route is controlled in part by Greece : the capture of Crete would help to safe guard Italy's Libyan route into Egypt...
Living artists (whose work comprised one-third of that shown) were mostly allowed to send in what they liked. Since most of the contemporary pictures were for sale ($400 to $12,000), many an artist submitted canvases-like Eugene Speicher's "Red" Moore, Blacksmith-which had kicked around unsold. But there were good new pictures, notably Reginald Marsh's swirling skating scene, Prometheus in Rockefeller Center...
...tough Pennsylvania line. In the first few minutes, thanks to a Penn fumble, Michigan had the ball on Penn's 19-yard line. Michigan faked a line buck, tossed a lateral to Harmon and he romped over for a touchdown. He also kicked the point. In the third period, in approximately the same spot, Michigan started what looked like the same play. The whole Penn team swarmed in on Harmon, who calmly tossed a forward pass for another touchdown. Running, passing and kicking until he was so exhausted that on one occasion he had to slow down...