Word: midterm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second issue was significant. Whereas the courts have ruled that the President may fire such purely executive functionaries as postmasters in midterm, but may not, except for specific offenses, discharge quasi-judicial, quasi-legislative officers (I. C. C., F. T. C.) who have been appointed for fixed periods. Dr. Morgan was first to raise the question of White House control over the appointed officers of such corporations as TVA. Although Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson has opined that the President has ample power to get rid of Dr. Morgan, that persistently righteous man holds one ace: a section...
...Congressional delay, caused by an unwieldy party majority, lax leadership and the customary rebelliousness of Congressmen at Presidential midterm...
...prognostication was perfect. The U. S. gave him a huge vote of thanks. In midterm elections during the past half century the minority party has taken from the majority an average of 48 seats in the House of Representatives. As soon as the counting began Republicans saw that they were only going to add about 20 seats to the scant 114 they now hold. The Democrats would still hold two-thirds...
...Harvard Democratic Club, established in 1829, and active in the 1928 campaign, has been organized for the current election and has invited Hon. Robert J. Bulkley '02, United States Senator from Ohio, to speak in Cambridge on Friday afternoon. Senator Bulkley, whose victory in Ohio in the 1930 midterm elections was hailed throughout the country as a triumph both for the Democrats and anti-prohibitionists in a Republican state, will be in Boston on Thursday and Friday. He will address the Harvard Democratic Club in the Common Room of one of the Houses, later to be announced. Members...
Taft's four years in the White House were not happy ones. Mrs. Taft was an invalid. He lost control of Congress at midterm. Roosevelt turned viciously upon him. But, withal, he kept his good humor, jested about going on a diet as he ate his customary White House breakfast of two oranges, a 12 oz. steak, creamy, sugary coffee, toast thick with butter...