Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped...
Politics? Yes and No. C. I. O. chieftains have plugged harder for "planning" than A. F. of L. cautionocrats; Labor's Non-Partisan League and John L. Lewis' third-party maneuvers have widened labor's split...
London has had four catastrophes in nine centuries. The first was a fire in 1087, which took St. Paul's and most of the primitive city around it. The second and third came in two successive years - the terrible plague of 1665 (70,000 dead) and the Great Fire of 1666, which left only one-fifth of the walled city standing. The fourth came last week. Perhaps not in physical damage but certainly in its imprint on the human mind, last week's was the worst. The first three were impersonal. This was the work...
...will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes attacked, but were repulsed with the loss of two. Bored, the British squadron steamed away...
...keeps with the snapper: "And them are the facts! What the hell?" His prosperous Local 46 has around 15,000 members, over $90,000 in the till, closed-shop contracts with all but two of Chicago's 960 laundries. Some 90% of its members are women, about one-third are Negroes. In three years Bill Donovan has doubled their hourly wages. In that time there have been no jurisdictional fights, a few inconsequential strikes. For his work Laborman Donovan draws $200 a week, plus expenses. He is proud of his expense account because it means "I never even took...