Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Third Termites bored busily in the solid wooden pillars of U. S. politics. Scripps-Howard's cartoonist, Harold Talburt, caught the spirit of it in a drawing of Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes, two urchins standing on the magic table of Franklin the Great, hoisting a third-term rabbit out of the absent wizard...
...work for a situation which will result in the people being given opportunity to vote directly on ... President Roosevelt and his policies. There can hardly be any doubt what the answer of the people would be."† ¶ Senator Pittman of Nevada: "I have inherent prejudices against a third term, but between Ickes and a third term, I'll take a third term...
...Senator Pepper of Florida: "The third-term question is being used as a red herring by some of the New Deal opponents." ¶ Senator Vandenberg of Michigan: "I do not see where he can find his 'Charlie McCarthy' with personal power enough to stand any show of perpetuating the dynasty. So, as a jovial precedent-breaker, I expect him to try himself." ¶ Senator Holt of West Virginia: "I am sure that those who supported the La Follette anti-third-term resolution during the Coolidge Administration will be very glad to support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist...
...animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third-term tuna playfully leaping over Franklin Roosevelt, as he fished with a bobber for the small game of this year's election...
...Aboard the Roosevelt third-term band wagon stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first. . . . We may have to draft the President for four more years of leadership...