Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guardsmen aboard the Landon bandwagon even before Cleveland, Boss Roraback violated his lifelong teaching, visited the Democratic State Convention, made a laudatory speech, for their candidate, Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, former dean of Yale's Graduate School and now, aged 75, serving his fourth term as Connecticut's Governor...
Married. Clara Johns, 24, elder sister of Charlie Johns, the Sneedville, Term, hillbilly who four months ago married Third-Grader Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8); and Herbert Winstead, 17, Eunice's elder brother; at New Hope, Tenn...
...work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned the word too loosely in a broadcast warning against "twisting." New York Life settled out of court. Some self-styled insurance...
...insurance criticism. David Gilbert is an oldtime insurance counselor who joined forces with James P. Sullivan last November. Mr. Sullivan was an actuary who had been examiner for Congressman Sabath's ubiquitous investigating committee. In general Gilbert & Sullivan believe that it is smarter to buy cheap renewable term insurance, which has little or no cash value and permits the policyholder to arrange his saving and investment program to suit himself. But good term contracts are hard to find because the life companies do not like to sell them, and Messrs. Gilbert & Sullivan warn all policyholders to leave their insurance...
...right to consider himself more American than most. His ancestors were early first citizens of Manhattan (whose etymology he gives as Man-a-hat-ta-nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish...