Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Gate International Exposition (correct name of the fair) will be a truly international exposition, despite the admitted fact that the International Bureau of Expositions has not accorded it the distinction of being what you term "fair-of-the-year...
Last week President Roosevelt was in his second-always less potent-term; the Depression was over; elections were distant. And the causes of Congressional discontent were far broader and deeper than three years ago. Lesser of them was Economy. There Congress was at odds not only with the President but divided within itself. Last week a House Appropriations subcommittee lopped $500,000,000 off the President's recommended $1,500,000,000 for Relief. This looked like a sign of real revolt. But the House knew that all President Roosevelt really cared about was to keep the CCC going...
Last week, without warning or explanation, the 68-year-old City Bar reversed many a previous vote, decided that the word "he" in its constitution was a generic term, hence applicable to women...
...spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang it in Ford's Theatre in Washington. Give Us Back Our Old Commander was used as a campaign song when McClellan ran for President against Lincoln in 1864, used again, with the name changed, when Grant was considering a third term...
Onetime (1924) Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee and thrice Governor of Nebraska Charles Wayland ("Brother Charlie") Bryan, brother of William Jennings Bryan, finished his term as Mayor of Lincoln, Neb., retired permanently from politics...