Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mussolini sits down to dictate his terms of settlement, term which no one can now contest, the nations that have backed the wrong horse may see their way to adopting an entirely new diplomatic technique. Either the League must be strongly supported to the common advantage of all, or the French system of alliances will come into universal use. In any event, if the nations come to realize that war cannot be averted by the monks' mummery of ineffective "sanctions", a more sternly pacifistic attitude, especially in the democratic countries, may prevail on the turbulent European scene...
...sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content of Senator Steiwers address with his voting record in Congress. Still remembered was big, friendly Steiwer's enigmatic platform when he began his first term as U. S. Senator in 1926: "The safety of American government depends upon loyalty to the fundamental principles of right and wrong...
Sentenced. Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, 27, great-grandson and namesake of Cleveland's late great Senator and President-maker*: to Ohio State Reformatory for an indeterminate term; for forging the name of his uncle, Publisher Dan Rhodes Hanna (Cleveland News), to a $200 check...
...rule it. Peppery, fox-bearded Superintendent William McAndrew (1924-28), born in Ypsilanti, Mich., was constantly bedeviled as a "stool pigeon of King George" by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill'') Thompson's "America First" campaign. His successor, William Joseph Bogan (1928-36), spent most of his term in the morass of teachers' "payless paydays." Last week Chicago's Board of Education, looking for a successor to Superintendent Bogan, who died in March, chose his assistant, William Harding Johnson...
Ever since Robert Maynard Hutchins became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...