Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...five visitors, the President, his mother, Mr. Summerlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt III, 2, gathered for tea and cocktails. Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little gentleman until his nurse came to take him away. Then he kicked like hell...
...back to Washington, back to his pressure-shaped, lonely job. This week he would go out and begin his rolling phrase: "You and I know-." He had cut his margin close: from Oct. 23 to Nov. 4 is only twelve days. Twelve days in which to campaign for a third term; to answer the opposition, to state his own case, to meet the issues, to explain to his fellow countrymen that, if he was not Cincinnatus, he was not Coriolanus either...
...Pollster Emil Hurja, Pathfinder publisher, and a backer of Vice President Garner's anti-Third Term campaign, told Willkie boosters that Candidate Willkie would be elected, possibly by a landslide, maybe by a majority of 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 votes. Observers held two legitimate doubts: 1) Mr. Hurja's forecasting reputation was based on his 1932 and 1936 forecasts, when he sat at James A. Farley's right hand, with all the Democratic Party's professionals in the field as his reporters. Even then his 1936 forecast was very conservative, far below...
...Upon all matters I do not agree with Messrs. Willkie and McNary in this campaign, but they are eternally right upon the great issue, and the all-important one: a third term. Thrice armed is he whose cause is just. Fear not. Fight...
...Midwestern, isolationist audience he said: "We do not want to send our boys over there again, and we do not intend to. If you elect me President, we will not. ... I believe if you elect the third-term candidate they will be sent." He finished. CBS Announcer John Charles Daly drew his fingers across his throat, traditional signal that allotted radio time was up. People began to get up, still applauding. Willkie began to speak again, extemporaneously, lifted his audience as he had not lifted them before...