Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's election for the Democratic nomination to fill the unexpired Senate term of Hugo LaFayette Black presumably meant a seven-year job because it tacitly carried with it a good chance for the nomination for the full term next year. For such a prime political plum, Tom Heflin, weary of the smaller jobs he had been given since his defeat in 1930, entered the race this autumn against Chairman J. Lister Hill of the House Military Affairs Committee...
...places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community. We are asked to expend the money in such a why as to 'promote and elevate the standards of journalism,' using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad; there are no restrictions on the methods to be employed in accomplishing the desired end. After careful consideration and consultation with a number of journalists, the Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used for fellowships which would...
...rates by $1,744,681 a year. The company got a three-judge Federal court to enjoin enforcement of the order on the ground that the commission had not properly considered the cost of reproduction in setting the rates. When the injunction was appealed to the Supreme Court last term it was upheld by a 4-to-4 decision, Justice Sutherland not voting. But after Hugo Black succeeded Willis Van Devanter, the Court voted to review its decision...
...past few months, Justice Van Devanter has been vacationing, subject to call-under the terms of the retirement act-by Chief Justice Hughes for emergency duty. Last week it was announced that by mutual agreement he would return to sit during the January term on the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Reason was the same as that for which Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes returned to the same court just before he resigned to run for President in 1916: a crowded docket. Chief case which senior Judge John C. Knox may assign...
...student of philosophy in general the first part alone of this undertaking makes the volume an important contribution to sound interpretations of the French philosopher. Conscious of the vagueness which surrounds the use of the word "intuition" in contemporary literature, Mr. Szathmary carefully delineates the meaning of this term in Bergson's philosophy: "In the act of intuition there is an internal response, which arises from the direct feeling of the qualities of an object...