Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Presumably AH Landon, who was reported to have refused a Cabinet post unless the President rejected the Third Term...
...weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...
When, on the first ballot, he was for the third time nominated for President, he sent word to the silent, suspicious reporters that he would have nothing to say. Not, added Steve Early, "until he has received official notification of his nomination; that is customary and he would like to adhere to custom." It was 2:15 a.m.; the President went...
...hour and ten minutes later, at 1:38 a.m., Franklin Roosevelt had been nominated by the Democratic Party for a third term-it was a first time in U. S. history. The vote: Roosevelt 946½, Farley 72½, Garner 61, Tydings 9½. (In the Senate Office Building John Nance Garner stayed incommunicado for a week...
...this state of affairs was Henry Wallace himself. Perhaps he was congenitally unable to break through a forest of agricultural statistics and theories, show himself to the U. S. people. That he never troubled to show himself to the Democratic Party was wholly natural: to Henry Wallace the Third, parties and party ties were unimportant to the point of nonexistence. Last week, after he was nominated, he casually explained that his daddy was a Republican, and that out of filial loyalty he had remained one until 1924. Then he campaigned for Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, joined the Roosevelt Cabinet...