Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...none dared ask, was what, if anything, the nomination of Wendell Willkie had done to Mr. Roosevelt's thoughts about Term III. Whatever the answer (the U. S. will have it after the Democrats convene July 15), G. 0. P.'s Willkie turned the last trace of Third Term opposition in the Democratic Party into a frantic demand that Mr. Roosevelt run. Even old Jack Garner, who seldom forgives and never forgets, sadly made up his mind that Franklin Roosevelt was the only Democrat who could beat this man Willkie. Janizaries like Tom Corcoran (see p. 53) trumpeted...
Married. Albert Davis Lasker, 60, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board (1921-23), onetime chairman of Lord & Thomas advertising agency; and Mary Woodward Reinhardt, secretary of the Birth Control Federation of America; in Manhattan; he for the third time, she for the second...
...Strategic materials to burn. The Allies controlled about one-quarter of the world's copper, more than half its rubber, about 40% of its tin, one-third its zinc, practically all its nickel...
...nonmoral reason was more realistic. Russia. No. 1 world producer of manganese (indispensable to steel making), normally supplies a third of U. S. manganese needs. Having no manganese stockpile to speak of, the State and War Departments are now trying to lay hands on all the manganese they can get. Claiming a shortage of ships (the U. S. Maritime Commission had been frowning on U. S. vessels accepting charters for Russian ports), Russia for weeks cut down rnanganese exports to the U. S. Hence War Materials Coordinator Ed Stettinius saw to it that U. S. vessels were...
...Nothing is so painful to me as the disdain with which one often treats writers of the second rank, as if there were room only for those of the first." Considering the number and excellence of the second rank, As I Remember Him may belong, rather, to the third. But for any book half as abundant and a tenth as likable, there is room and welcome...