Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant is the concentrators' almost unanimous opinion that the method and scope of teaching in the department is seriously in need of revision. Too much emphasis is laid, they feel, on political theory: they approach, it is felt, is too analytical, too scholastic, in the strictest sense of the term. The department treats too exclusively of the art of government, paying too little attention to its practise. In courses as in tutorial work--throughout the whole work a student does in preparation for his final examinations--the outside world is far too often regarded as a scientist regards an atom...
...council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only one-third as large as that non-Socialist city gave its famed Marxist Mayor...
Meanwhile in France's 86 departments 3,580 candidates were intimately concerned in finding out what France's 11,000,000 voters really mean. On April 26 France and her colonies must elect 618 Deputies for a four-year term. In each election district candidates who do not receive a clear majority of votes cast must stand before the voters again the following Sunday when a simple plurality wall elect them...
...banker except by training. He risks no capital, gets no commissions, is paid a straight salary apportioned, along with his expenses and wages of his three employes, among the Land Banks he represents. He is also fiscal agent for the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, which make short-term crop and marketing loans to farmers, has disposed of $1,800,000,000 of Intermediate Credit Bank debentures in the past seven years...
Senator Marcus Allen Coolidge, Democrat, whose term expires this year, yesterday made a determined bid for Harvard votes by introducing in the Senate a bill to authorize a special 3 cent stamp commemorating the Tercentenary celebration in September...