Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn last week of Joseph B. Keenan, first Assistant to the Attorney General and a political specialist in the Janizariat, to repeat what has become the official story about a Third Term: that Franklin Roosevelt would run again "if needed." The Keenan version: "Americans can be of good cheer, for I am sure if the occasion arises where any star of liberal leadership becomes dimmed, we can rely upon that one great American to continue the battle. . . . He will not see the humane policies which he has instituted perish...
Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...Louis H. Pink started hearings on the matter, suggested a sliding interest scale based upon highest grade industrial bond yields plus 1% for expenses. The insurance companies at first opposed any reduction at all, insisting that it would increase the cost of all insurance by forcing investment in short-term securities and reducing interest earnings, would decrease dividends to policyholders (non-borrowers as well as borrowers), would encourage borrowing for speculation during prosperity, and during depression would tend to cause a run on life insurance companies...
...career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that he was talked of for the 1932 Presidential nomination. His boom died without an echo, but he had accumulated enough momentum for a full Senate term...
...exceedingly grateful to Mr. Rowe for his long term of fine service to Harvard debating, and regret very much the fact that he must devote his time to his practice in the future. His departure is a great loss to the Council. . . ." was the Debating Council's resolution of thanks, passed last night...