Word: term
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This doesn't mean that I'm starting to run for another term. It means merely that I'm continuing...
...Gallup poll, 38% of those asked said they would vote Franklin Roosevelt a third term, 40% said they would vote against him, 22% didn't know, said it depended on the other candidate. Pollster Gallup computed the 22%-balance wheel the 1940 election-at 10,000,000 U. S. voters now undecided...
Most important political decree was one prolonging the life of the present Chamber of Deputies until June 1942, or two years beyond the four-year term for which the Deputies were elected in 1936. Only precedent for prolonging the Chamber occurred in 1918, during the World War, but even so there was no exact parallel. Then the Chamber, rather than the Cabinet, voted itself one more year in office...
...Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square guy I've ever known." It also touches off the most authentic and exciting prison picture since The Big House (1930), one of the noisiest sound tracks ever heard outside...
...newspapers, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the San Francisco Chronicle and many a lesser sheet, have borrowed from TIME that the Transcript's new format was scarcely news. But news it is that Publisher Johnson has upped national advertising revenue by 50%, roped 24 new advertisers into long-term contracts...