Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Full of rearmament plans but temporarily checked by what the law schools term a "conflict of law," the Army has been impatiently marking time. All dressed up, it had no place to go. For President Roosevelt, while authorized to spend more than Congress has appropriated for Army pay, food, clothing for new recruits, was prohibited by law from doing the same for housing, hospitalization and transportation. And without funds the Army could not move men, had to shelve temporarily its plans for improved living quarters and medical facilities at numerous bases in the U. S. and her territories...
...Turkish Military Mission, wined & dined every night by lavish hosts who included the Lord Mayor of London, readily "initialed" a long-term agreement of mutual Turkish-British support, but refused to "sign" and indicated that what Turkey will actually do cannot be decided until President Ismet Inönü knows, among other things, just how much support the Bank of England is willing to give Turkish currency and just how much in the way of armaments the British care to send to Turkey. In circles close to His Majesty's Government the "difficulties" of shipping arms to Turkey...
...Will not our national unity be augmented by a statement from our President that for a third term he will not choose...
...Franklin Roosevelt had not said no, politics was just what Secretary Ickes would have discussed. Topic originally scheduled for debate was the third term...
Last spring Harvard's faculty hoped for reform in Dr. Conant's hiring & firing policies when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...