Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...
...deal." There were interruptions, the latest when the Governorship was held by an old-line Republican (1928-30) and by a Democrat (1932-34). In 1934, however, Philip Fox La Follette, youngest of the sons, came back strong. Last fall Phil La Follette, running for his fourth term as Governor, was beginning to think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third of the States, Wisconsin turned around and elected a Republican, who clearly (against Wisconsin's background) suggested...
...service of his predecessor, Republican Walter Jodok Kohler, which Phil La Follette enjoyed was the State Emergency Board, composed of the Governor and the finance committee chairmen of the two legislative houses. In the closing days of Mr. La Follette's term, the State Supreme Court padlocked, in the State treasury, some $4,000,000 which this board was about to dole out to Civil War veterans and the teachers' retirement fund. This would have left the State treasury virtually bare when the new Governor took office...
...Revised Version of the King James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord" would be substituted for "Jehovah" throughout the Standard Bible, added: "Jehovah is not a functioning religious term. People don't use it; they don't think of praying to Jehovah...
Applications for Student Council scholarships to be applied on the third term bill are due by January 20, it was announced last night by Robert M. Bunker '39, chairman of the Council Scholarship Committee. The term bill will be due January...