Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back to jail went Ben Bess, South Carolina's most conspicuous contemporary Negro. Ben Bess first went to jail for a 30-year term in 1915, on the testimony of a white-trash woman named Maude Collins who swore he had raped her. Last spring Ben Bess was pardoned by Governor Richards after Maude Collins had signed an affidavit saying her original testimony was false (TIME, June...
...President Calvin Coolidge. Indeed Death has taken most parents of living Presidents. Singularly blessed, therefore, is 70-year-old President Michael Hainisch of Austria-for last week a movement to re-elect him for a third term was set on foot by his Mother...
...have decided to declare in solemnity and with such clearness that my words may not be misinterpreted, that I shall not seek the prolongation of my term, either by accepting prorogue of office or by accepting the appointment of Provisional President. . . . Never for any reason or under any circumstances shall I return to the Presidency...
...because he wished to provide the imbecile proportion of Chicago's population with a practical demonstration of his patriotic campaign cries, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago last April arranged to have his school board oust William McAndrew, Superintendent of Schools, from office-after the Superintendent's term had expired. The charge was insubordination; the evidence in the form of certain history books in use at the public schools and alleged to contain "pro-British" propaganda. With William McAndrew out of office it became the business of the new Superintendent, William J. Bogan, to substitute other history books...
Last week "Blunt Beelaerts," as scurrilous U. S. correspondents term him, consented to receive the press, an infrequent condescension. Evidently his breakfast eggs, toast, cheese, preserves and cups of chocolate had been especially satisfying, for "Blunt Beelaerts" proceeded to open with a Dutch pleasantry...