Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...motored past City Hall, past signs, "Welcome Champ," "Roosevelt For a 3rd, 4th, 5th Term," past thousands of faces that know Roosevelt and light up when he passes. "If there's any anti-third term sentiment in America, it isn't in the faces of the crowds," said Correspondent Alfred Stedman of the anti-Roosevelt St. Paul Pioneer Press...
...many in the audience, more important than any words he spoke was the fact that big Jim Farley came on to the platform beside the President-Farley, Democratic Party symbol of opposition to the Third Term...
Still, there was something lacking. Said the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "The President cried 'Liar!' thirty-two times, and never mentioned the third term once...
...Except such old impertisans as Al Smith, who growled like a political Jimmy Durante: "So the convention drafted the third term candidate! Drafted, hey? Kuh-h-h-loney...
...Beyond it were bedrooms for the candidate and his slight, pleasant wife; one for huge, lumbering Brother Ed; a section fitted as a dining room; a kitchen; compartment for maids, secretaries, aides and two New York City detectives, Stephen Buckley and Rudolph McLaughlin -both on the Manhattan payroll of Third Termite Fiorello LaGuardia...