Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind as, in his ten-car, air-cooled special train, he rolled westward out of Washington last week. Politician Roosevelt was out to whoop it up for his supporters in this autumn's Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin Roosevelt's personal appeal, but his methods and policies. His obvious...
Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in England to explore industrial conditions for Franklin Roosevelt, replied last week to a British query on his third-term intentions...
...Passing through Butte, Mont. on her way home to Seattle from Brother John's wedding, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger said: "I don't think father will run for another term. It's a wearisome grind, campaigning...
...that readers have blown off steam, let them put on their thinking caps and try to define clearly and concisely what men mean, if anything, in speaking of the "New Deal." Of those above only Reader Ledvina appears even to have tried. Is "New Deal" merely an emotional term of praise or distaste, or does it refer to a philosophy of government (whether good...
...means just half of what it says. A seven-year sentence is really for 14 years-seven years at hard labor, seven years as a libéré (freedman) confined to French Guiana. Any sentence for more than seven years is just a nice name for a life term, since the prisoner is then automatically condemned forever to the penal colony. It is usually the freedmen who escape...