Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt spent his quietest seven days since the war began. He traveled from Hyde Park to Warm Springs, with a brief stop-over in Washington, dedicated a community centre, made a joke about the third term, carved a turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner for the patients at the Warm Springs Foundation, looked over his 2,500-acre Georgia farm, held a press conference at the roadside while sitting at the wheel of his car, discussed taxes, and in general provided reporters with nothing to write about...
...clock the Freshman Debating Union will open its season against St. Mark's School in the Upper Common Room of the Union on the affirmative of the subject: "Resolved, That under the present conditions it would be both necessary and desirable for Roosevelt to have a third term...
...factional leader. . . . The popular confidence which he has been earning since he rose to the occasion of the war will grow greater as he holds himself firmly to the line he has so wisely taken. An inevitable and necessary corollary will be a renunciation of a third term, not in ambiguous language, but in plain words like Washington...
...Cadaverous William Gibbs McAdoo praised Franklin Roosevelt to the 1940 skies, demanded a third term for him. Mr. McAdoo's eulogy (he is the New Deal beneficiary of a $25,000 job as head of the American President Lines-second highest paid Government post) roused no ripple of surprise in Washington...
After completion of the course and the required term of duty, cadets may return to civil life with a bonus...