Word: term
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a convention delegate offered a Roosevelt-Third-Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on record against all amendments to the Wagner Act, and against diversion of Federal funds from social services to Rearmament (but did not oppose Rearmament as such). It demanded more Relief, more Housing, more and better Planning in the name of greater production, greater employment, greater consumer purchasing power...
Some said he elevated one of the toughest towns in North America "to a state of almost pristine virtue" by chasing out its crooks, grafters, gamblers, racketeers. But during his second term, in 1932, he and his police chief were convicted of conspiring to permit the operation of bawdy houses. Democratic Governor William Comstock pardoned him after he had served eight months and eleven days of a 3½-to-5-year sentence, saying he was "more sinned against than sinning." He barely missed re-election while under sentence, and again while in jail in 1934. He came back strong...
...criticism voiced by the socialists of Whitman's period in an attempt to illuminate the attitudes of Whitman himself. He does not make of Whitman an intellectually unified individual at the expense of verity, he does not even make him an intellectual in the restricted sense of the term. For once a biographer has finished his work without creating a god or devil out of the subject. Whitman was neither a radical nor a reactionary; he was a little of each with much else mixed in, and the complexity of his views and, more important, his intuitions, provides an engrossing...
...nurtured functioned well last week. For a day Abdulhalik Renda, president of the Grand National Assembly, was provisional president. Next day the Assembly elected deaf, 60-year-old General Ismet Inönü, long Turkey's No. 2 strong man, for a four-year presidential term. It was constitutional procedure...
...Robert ("Old Bob") bought the venerable Journal in 1902. (One story is that Bob fell in love with the Journal because it defended him when somebody tried to blackmail him.) Bob Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...