Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President on an independent Progressive ticket in 1924, polled nearly 5,000,000 votes. Since his death in 1925, La Follette Progressivism has been ably carried on by his two sons- conscientious dapper "Young Bob," 43, who went to the U. S. Senate in 1925 to fill the unexpired term of his father, and Philip, who has been elected Wisconsin's Governor...
...Dick makes his boys work hard, likes to give them responsibility. The school has an honor system and each boy takes a pledge not to smoke during term time. The plan provides for double class periods, half of them allotted to study for the next lesson under supervision of the teachers, and for independent research by the students. The Richards plan is costly, requiring 40% more teachers, but last week Headmaster Richards reported it was worth the cost. Of the 242 boys Lake Forest has sent to college in the last five years, only three flunked out in freshman year...
...Dean stressed that such seminars must rest on a background of legal knowledge. In this connection he thought that some of the material which is introduced in other law schools in the first year should come later. Constitutional law, for example, is given at some schools in the first term. "Before you take such a course, you need a good legal background or the course tends merely to be a political science course rather than one that includes training in legal method...
Defeated then by 4,050 votes, he was chosen to serve out the unexpired term of Florida's late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher in 1936. In Washington, Claude Pepper distinguished himself by a strict adherence to all policies and projects suggested by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A stocky, black-haired young man, whose earnest, grey-eyed face is disfigured by pockmarks, he speaks with more sincerity than eloquence, convinces his listeners of his utter honesty when he says: "It is time someone in authority got in to do some fighting for the poor white man in the South. I have...
...July 1935 in Copenhagen, a Danish court convicted and sentenced "The Mink" to a brief term for espionage...