Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnesota. When Minnesota's blind, blatant Senator Thomas D. Schall died last December, Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson appointed his quiet, abstemious, hard-working banking commissioner, Elmer A. Benson, to serve the unexpired term, be thus groomed to succeed as Governor. When Governor Olson died last summer, the blow to President Roosevelt's chances of carrying Minnesota caused him to persuade the State's Democratic nominees for Senator and Governor to withdraw in favor of the Farmer-Labor candidates. Old-line Democrats grumbled. Republicans shouted that the President had "sold his Party down the river...
...York. Because he had shown himself an even abler New York vote-getter than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, Herbert Henry Lehman, who urgently desired to return to his banking business, was drafted by the Democratic National Convention and the President himself to run for a third term as Governor. That sacrifice was proved wholly unnecessary when Governor Lehman, though winning handily, ran over 300,000 votes behind his nation-sweeping White House friend...
...Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...
...dates back to 1869 when the late Marcus Goldman started to buy from Manhattan tobacco and diamond dealers the promissory notes given them by their customers. Clapping the notes in his high black hat, Founder Goldman would then make the rounds of the banks, selling the notes as short-term investments at a slight profit...
...Roosevelt has declared that she hopes, in her second term, to compete less with the late Theodore R. and Bernarr MacFadden as the apostle of the strenuous life. Mrs. Roosevelt will try to plan her time better, but she doesn't know whether or not it will be possible, since the election "showed in unmistakeable terms that the country wishes to go in the way it has begun". Mrs. Roosevelt feels the people's mandate most keenly. Mrs. Roosevelt seems to be confused...