Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serving his fifth term as mayor of the city of Waterbury (pop.: 98,000) and his second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
...Government will give $10,000,000 when they are nationalized. To handle the coal, the Crichton-Stuarts built most of Cardiff's enormous docks. But even more lucrative of late have been the family's vast Cardiff real-estate holdings, from which $750,000 yearly in long-term leases was gleaned. Docks and real estate were both included in the sale-20,000 houses, the Cardiff Shipping Exchange, 1,000 stores, 250 pubs, cinema houses, wide suburban areas. Also included in the sale was Cardiff Castle, in which Lord Bute once entertained 10,000 guests and to which...
Morgan went to the Infirmary because he needed a rest. He stayed there about ten days and then tendered his second resignation in as many years from the Law School. Last year he also resigned near the end of the second term...
...Gist of the 14th Amendment passed in 1868 to guarantee civil rights to Negroes was the clause providing that no State could "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. . . ." Following an 1886 precedent, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the term "person" applied to corporations as well as individuals. Gist of Justice Black's dissent in last January's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. v. Johnson case: "I do not believe the word 'person' in the Fourteenth Amendment includes corporations...
...that is only the beginning. Assigned to the staff of an opera house, he spends years rehearsing choruses, teaching singers how to sing their parts, helping conductors whip scenes into shape. Eventually, if he shows talent, he is allowed to conduct an opera or two. Only after a long term as a full-fledged opera conductor does he attempt the exacting business of conducting a symphony orchestra. Conducting opera is like driving a 20-mule team, gives an ideal training for conductors. A Brahms symphony holds no technical terrors for a man who is able to keep a badly-rehearsed...