Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtains parted for the last time this term, and out came the U.S. Supreme Court justices to air in public no less than 39 interpretations of 17 cases before them. That was enough to make their record secure: they clinched the alltime record for dissents in one term-264 in an eight-month calendar of 151 cases. With that, they adjourned for the summer to ride off in all directions, just as they had been doing all through the session...
...million the first year for public housing (of which some $750 million would presumably be repayable in long-term loans...
...West's economic experts wiped out 90% of West Germany's inflated currency and clamped tight restrictions on credit in order to guard against a relapse into inflation. Many industries, notably the Ruhr mines, lack funds to replace badly worn-out equipment. Businessmen, without long-term risk capital, are forced to seek quick profits; they build nightclubs and theaters rather than homes and factories...
...Liberal party, in power since 1935, an unruffled electorate was all to the good. Under Canada's British-style parliamentary system, the Liberals could call the election any time before their five-year term ended in 1950. They had picked the June date as the best one. It was too early for farmers to be upset by any threat of a crop failure, too soon for most voters to be deeply worried about Canada's darkening business outlook. Most important of all, the June election gave the fighting Opposition Leader, George Drew, the shortest possible time to organize...
...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...