Word: term
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed last week that President Roosevelt last month pardoned, because of ill health, Broker William L. Jarvis of Newton and Scituate, Mass., who had served 15 months of a five-year prison term for fraudulent use of mails to sell stock. Broker Jarvis and four colleagues were SEC's first big captures...
Question: "How is President Roosevelt going to get around the third-term bugaboo...
...Vice President Garner and others last week dissuaded West Virginia's anti-Roosevelt young Senator Rush Holt from introducing a resolution to put the Senate on record against a third term. Such resolutions were passed to head off third terms for Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge. Reason for Garner & Co.'s delay: lack of a sufficiently impressive majority just yet for the resolution...
...constantly nagged" the Nazi Government during the Czech crisis and asked: What would have happened had Neville Chamberlain not come to Munich? Dr. Goebbels roared: "I say he came because he had to come. He came because we had him so cornered that he was-to use a chess term-in check...
...faced man of disciplined energy, has traveled the world for the Y. M. C. A. and the International Missionary Council. The I. M. C., coordinator of Protestant foreign missions, re-elected Dr. Mott its chairman at its meeting in Madras last winter. Dr. Mott, now 74, requested that his term be limited to three years. Last week he addressed the Foreign Missions Conference of North America at Swarthmore College...