Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary-pressagent, Journalist William Hard, to G. 0. P. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, it portrayed a streamlined elephant, charging and trumpeting, tusks up, ears back, tail flying, was inscribed, "Let's G. O. Places." In August 1927, Calvin Coolidge, summering in the Black Hills, renounced third-term aspirations by handing out a little slip of paper, reading "I do not choose to run." Last week, on the eleventh anniversary of that occasion, Third Termite Charles Michelson, grizzled pressagent of the Democratic National Committee, declared: ". . . Franklin Roosevelt would take a case of hives rather than four more years...
...Senator Smathers of New Jersey: "I have but one political ambition left ... to help elect President Roosevelt for a third term. . . . There is no one big enough and strong enough to carry...
...Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska (advocate of a single six-year term for Presidents): "He [Franklin Roosevelt] thinks he could carry out his program better than anyone else. In this situation there will always be people around who will urge him to seek a third term...
...Statesman J. Hamilton Lewis, whose elegant pink beard has grown grey in 25 years during which he served Illinois off & on in the U. S. Senate, announced he would retire from Congress next year. (His term does not expire till...
...establishment by competing nations of export credit agencies. With almost every foreign nation in debt to the U. S., none had money to buy U. S. products; and the U. S. banking system, developed for a debtor nation, had no machinery for providing foreign buyers with long-term credits. The first Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to fill the need for Russia alone. Pending debt settlements between the two countries, this bank did nothing and the Second Export-Import Bank was set up to handle credits for Cuba. When negotiations with Russia finally broke down...