Word: personation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 14 years, Congress last week proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.* It concerned presidential tenure. Under its terms, no person can be elected to the presidency for more than two terms, or more than one term if he has served more than two years of another President's unexpired term...
Strong in his faith-he had just returned from Philadelphia and a look at "the body of Father Divine in person"-True Knowledge appealed to the union rank & file. But only 20 of the 3,100 longshoremen who gathered to hear his case felt that he should be allowed to keep his card. Then the union went further. It set out to cancel his registration as a longshoreman, and thus boot him off the waterfront for good...
Yellow Glare. At 18 the heiress to the throne came of age, imperially, ready to assume the Crown if her father died. As a private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing...
...Eliot pointed out that the President's dictum contemplated the use of the "dangerous" Dies Committee "subversive" lists in determining disloyalty or sympathetic association with groups called subversive by the Attorney General. A person discharged from the government service for disloyalty, he stated, would find himself condemned in the job market and as stigmatized as one convicted of treason...
Cross emphasized that only minimum living expenses were included in the poll averages, and noted the fact that other items naturally varied from person to person. The survey, he said, was designed to reach a representative cross-section of the student body...