Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tomatoes & Eggs. While Wendell Willkie stormed through New England, hoarsely lambasting "The Third Term Candidate" and the New Deal, other G. O. P. stalwarts marched up & down the land echoing or outdoing him. William Harrison Fetridge, managing editor of The Republican, thought the welkin was ringing too loudly, wrote: "The time has come to talk plainly to a lot of Republicans. . . . Quiet, thoughtful, reasonable talk will win more votes than all the bombast you can muster." New York's Congressman Bruce Barton, candidate for the U. S. Senate, nailed a thesis on Mr. Roosevelt's front door charging...
...Isabella Greenway King, onetime Democratic Representative from Arizona, bridesmaid 35 years ago at the wedding of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Said she: "Every instinct of my country tells me we should not risk a third term...
...Deborah Delano, 93, who bolted the Republican Party to vote for her third cousin Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, bolted back last week, declaring: "Even if he is as smart as they say, no man is smart enough to run for three terms...
...Fleet, with C. V. Whitney, chairman of the board of Pan American Airways (just returned from an air tour of the Pacific), the tension in the East was not as great as it sounded in the press. The Japanese hastily piped down their war talk and one-third of the U. S. Fleet idled in California harbors, giving long overdue shore leave to its sailors. But the fundamental crisis in the East was building up to a decision that could not be indefinitely postponed. There were only three possible outcomes...
...fifth columnist spreading disorganization among the Belgian refugees. Once he went to Arras for information for General Blanchard and came close to getting trapped while two British officers held him over whiskey and "good stories." A Belgian fortress officer told him how treachery had robbed him of a third of his troops the night before the invasion. He was given dispatches to General Weygand, dodged a Panzer column and got through Dunkirk, out to Britain and back to Paris. When Calais fell he was on a train to London, watching the English boys in their towns playing football...