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...case pressure on already taxed facilities here this summer, Radcliffe students, with almost no exception, will be officially discouraged from planning to attend the 12-week summer term, Dean Buck said, and no admissions would be granted summer-schooling teachers. Applications for temporary one-term transfer from other colleges will likewise be rejected...
...years. But, whereas Franklin Roosevelt will have to break solemn precedents to run for a third term, Lázaro Cárdenas to run for a second term would have to break not only the Mexican Constitution (for which there is plenty of precedent) but his own word. He has repeatedly pledged himself to retire in 1940 when his six-year term expires, and he has so strictly enforced the Constitution's one-term provision that no one has been allowed to run for Congress who has held any major Government office within a year prior to election...
Career: His father, oldtime California politician and one-term (1895-97) Congressman, long served Southern Pacific R. R. as counsel. His mother was of French descent. He left the University of California his junior year to become a shorthand reporter. Studying law in his father's office he was admitted to the bar in 1888, moved to San Francisco 14 years later where he has since made his home. As a young assistant to Francis Joseph Heney, famed prosecutor, he helped drive out San Francisco's ''boodlers" and convicted notorious Abe Ruef of bribery after Heney...
...simultaneously became professor of psychology at Vassar, where she had been an associate for five years. For a term she was president of the American Psychological Association, and for another, vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Miss Sabin can match her there, having been one-term vice president and two-term president of the American Association of Anatomists...
...Hampshire. Unopposed for Republican renomination was Senator Henry Wilder Keyes. John Gilbert Winant, one-time (1925-26) Governor, shattered the State's one-term gubernatorial tradition when he received the Republican nomination for Governor over Arthur P. Morrill who had the support of Senator George Higgins Moses. Nominees Keyes and Winant will oppose in the November election the same man-Albert Willington Noone, 84, Wet, wealthy, of Peterboro. Mr. Noone had won both the Democratic gubernatorial and Senatorial nomination. He promised if elected not only to build the world's largest electric beacon on Mt. Temple, but also...