Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sneedville, Term., lanky Hill-Billy Charlie Johns, 22, married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee...
Another reason that some reasonable wage adjustment will come from the Brotherhoods' demand is that railroad workers are not exhausted youngsters from the nerve-shattering assembly lines of modern manufacture, but seasoned men whose average term of service is about 15 years...
Unanimously passed by the Student Council yesterday was an amendment to its constitution providing for election of the Junior Committee of the Senior Album in the third week of the second term rather than after spring vacation, according to an announcement by John B. Bowditch '37, President of the Council...
...special squad of policemen and detectives too young to be tainted by corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France at 45, and a fight with Tammany...
...Burnham Building the Chicago Plan to free the courts of political domination. To put the proposals into operation would require an amendment to the State Constitution. Affected would be Cook County's three inferior courts, which would be changed thus: Each sitting judge would complete his elective term. At the next election, put on the ballot without political affiliation or opposition, he would be voted on. A majority of votes against any one judge would eliminate him, otherwise he would retain office for ten years...