Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week's "barometer" election, her three incumbent representatives*-Republicans all (Messrs, Oliver, Smith, Brewster)-confused their New Deal issue by all plumping for the vote-catching Townsend Plan of old-age pensions. Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows had the benefit of an anti-third-term tradition against former Governor Louis J. Brann, for whom Crooner Rudy Vallée stumped at the last moment. That all four Republicans won was less of a weather vane than a what-is-it, unless significance lay in the vote ratios-5 to 4 Republican this year (gubernatorial) as against...
...Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce, 75, president of famed Luce's Press Clipping Bureau, who is seeking a tenth term in Congress...
...depressed state," the police admitted, but he will be tried in a few months before a special court on the charge of violating the Austrian Constitution. Likely sentence: Exile. "Germany's dignity," soberly cracked the police, would not allow his execution or sentence to a long jail term...
...personal slaves, later conscripts and sons of subject Christians) of the Turkish Sultans from the 14th to 19th Centuries, the Janizaries became so potent that, when they revolted in 1826, thousands of them had to be killed, the rest dispersed, their organization abolished. Says Tommy Corcoran: "We welcome the term. . . . They were really the Civil Service of the Ottoman Empire...
...term "plague" is usually associated with the Black Death of the 14th Century, which destroyed a fourth of Europe's inhabitants, or the Great Plague of London, which killed 70,000 people in 1665. Surprised last week were the readers of Science and Science News Letter to find that seven States in the western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year...