Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson skaters, who generally regard the Big Green as one of their top opponents, defeated B.C. last term by the same score...
George H. Esser, Jr. M. will take office next term as incoming president of the Law School Forum, Forum officials announced yesterday. Richard A. Holman 21, will take over as first vice-president and Frank I Cohau SL as second vice-president...
Bull Moosers. The best try was made by the Progressives of 1912. Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt thought better of his resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked...
...quite a surprise; two weeks ago, Landis said, the President had assured him that he would be reappointed when his term ran out on Dec. 31. Landis credited his enemies among the big airlines with having whetted the Truman...
...with party workers. As a rebellious and reform bent city alderman, he had thrown many a prewar monkey wrench into the Kelly-Nash machine. He had been badly beaten in the 1942 senatorial primary. Then (while his wife, Emily Taft Douglas, guarded the family political fortunes by serving a term in Congress), he had gone off to fight as a private in the Marines. Twice wounded, he came home a hero and a lieutenant colonel...