Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that anybody will sign any petition is peculiarly well illustrated by the story of the petition to abolish final examinations which was passed around among the seniors at Syracuse a short while ago. Slipped into the middle was a clause which made all signers liable to a five year term on a Georgia labor gang. One hundred and fifteen signed the petition; only three refused...
...comes not from the disorganized conservatives and dispossessed landlords but, paradoxically, from within the Cárdenas regime itself. President Cárdenas came in on a program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control...
...could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment of a commission to haggle over the $20,000,000 owed the contractors, the report to be made in six months...
...already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; claims sole right to the use of the term "Ballet Russe" Both factions are proceeding to gird themselves for rival U. S. tours next season...
...previous years the Committee of the Council found that the Union Committee occasionally bogged down after the fall term...