Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This implied two important points: 1) Talk of Franklin Roosevelt's running for a third term is untrue. 2) His chief argument for his Court proposal will be a repetition of that which he used in his Message on the State of the Union two months ago: that Democracy must take all steps necessary for its very preservation. This he now interprets specifically to mean that laws which he believes necessary must not be declared unconstitutional by the courts...
...futile to roar "Communism" and "Fascism" when additions to the Supreme Court are mentioned. An effective opposition must prove to the public that the broad interpretation of the Constitution is not needed as quickly as the President thinks. In his own metaphor, revolution is farther off from his term than Sumter was from President Buchanan...
President Conant has asked a committee of the faculty to draw up a list of suitable books from which "a partial mastery of ...(the field) can be obtained by systematic reading during term time and vacations." An examination of a purely voluntary nature would be given every fall and high ranking students would receive a substantial monetary award or a certificate upon graduation. Detailed plans have not been worked out whereby the work would be rewarded which President Conant sees as so desirable for the college graduate, but that is expected upon the publication of the report by the committee...
Rendered in favor of the defense by the presiding judge, Hon. Abraham E. Pinanski, justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, was a decision in the quarter final term of the Ames Competition held in the court room of Langdell Hall last night...
There was equal agreement that there is no static state of Utopia, that there should be no discussion of a possible condition of perpetual prosperity. Anything that is done is merely a stage in the development of civilization, and the term "the present economic system" was seldom hard...