Word: terme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
...bitten by a dog, remember this-not once in many thousand times is the dog rabid. Rabies exists, but it is very rare. Of the almost uncountable bites inflicted during a term of years on attendants in the New York City dog pounds, not one caused a case of rabies...
...There are two Alf M. Landons. There is the Governor Landon of Kansas. That is the man I know. Then there is the Candidate Landon. . . . Candidate Landon is running for the Presidency on an anti-New Deal platform, but Governor Landon ran for a second term for the Governorship of Kansas on a 100% New Deal platform...
...high bond prices for some time to come. Nevertheless, to squash any widespread notion that it was deliberately moving for tighter money, the Board took pains to state that its move was an anti-inflationary step offering "further encouragement to sound business recovery and confidence in the long-term investment market...
...paunchy onetime Sedalia lawyer, who served a term in the Missouri Senate before landing his Federal job, this was a blow indeed. In private life his income was never supposed to be more than $5,000 a year. After receiving his big fee, he moved to Virginia, has since spent most...