Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reflected the worry of many a politician in Washington: the expectation that revenues for fiscal 1937 would fall $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 below estimates, the fact that Secretary Morgenthau found it necessary to resume borrowing, beginning with the sale of $50,000,000 worth of short-term bills this week. In the Senate, Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson spoke out almost as pessimistically as Hugh Johnson...
...Stanford severely provides that "the possession, transportation or use of intoxicating liquors ... in the university shall be grounds for expulsion." Perhaps the most lenient administration is Harvard's. Students may not only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their rooms, and Princeton's eating clubs have a gentleman's agreement with the administration not to serve liquor. Yalemen are not supposed to drink in their rooms, but many Yale clubs and fraternity houses have State permits...
...Progressive" critics and opponents of Greek and Latin studies base their arguments upon the supposed fruitlessness of learning a language of no practical value. The term "dead" language has become a form of opprobrium and the study of Latin and more especially of Greek has been allowed to lapse into discard. While this shift in attitude is understandable and perhaps, in the light of changing needs, condonable, for those who wish to study Greek life and letters the omission of this popular course is a serious and disheartening blow...
Warned Justice Sutherland, reading the minority dissent: "Freedom is not a mere intellectual abstraction. ... It is an intensely practical reality. . . . When applied to the Press the term freedom is not to be narrowly confined. ... If freedom of the press does not include the right to adopt and pursue a policy without governmental restriction it is a misnomer to call it freedom. . . . The judgment of Congress-or still less the judgment of an administrative censor-can-not, under the Constitution, be substituted for that of the press management in respect of the employment or discharge of employes engaged in editorial work...
Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...