Word: term
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court from March 6 to April 17, but when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...
Question-of-the-hour put by Roosevelt loyalists to their fellow Democrats is: "Do you oppose a third term for the President? When it reached resilient Maury Maverick-the super-New-Dealer who, defeated for re-election to the House, snapped back last month as mayor of San Antonio-the question bounced. "I think," said Maury Maverick, "that I'm against a fourth term, and I know I'm against a fifth...
...Atlantic about 175 miles southeast of Boston. A trawler fished him dripping from the sea, seconds after the monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York Journal and American...
...Commission since it was founded in 1887 has followed the not-too-sense-making custom of making each of its members in turn chairman for a year. Last week it broke with precedent, picked its outstandingly able member, Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, 56, as chairman for a three-year term, beginning July...
...Republican presidential nominee coupled his third term theory with a bitter attack upon the Administration's "pump-priming" and charged that this program was nullified by the President's constant "throwing of monkey wrenches" into the machinery of business and government...