Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first half of his six-year term, said President Quezon, he had spent laying the Commonwealth's political and economic foundations. The second half, he would devote to "a spiritual revival of the Filipino people" by formulating "a sort of written Bushido."* Then he proceeded to do something that no successful politician can do in a real democracy, to tell his fellow countrymen that their national character is weak and full of flaws...
...Bonapartist Pretender, His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless, that at Ajaccio in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, an oration in honor...
...cover) One night last week in Mexico City high Cabinet officials held clandestine conclave. Its object, according to the dispatches of correspondents, was to consider whether the Government's "Party of the Mexican Revolution"* should nominate General Lázaro Cárdenas y del Rio for a second term as President...
...rdenas has been the most popular, most personally democratic, most politically radical of the 45 presidents whom Mexico has had in 114 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...
...three months ago The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud was published as a Modern Library Giant (TIME, May 23). The original edition, cautiously figured to last six months, was 10,000 copies. With few critics paying it attention, it sold out in eleven days. A second edition of 20,000 copies has now dwindled to its last few thousand copies, and Freud has come back as the fastest-selling reprint throughout...