Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British opinion voiced in and out of the House of Commons appeared last week to have reached a new estimate of Franklin Roosevelt. When the President at the opening of his first term gave vigorous encouragement to the World Economic Conference convened in London by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and then proceeded from Washington to withdraw his support and wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget...
Wedding Anniversary. Carter Henry Harrison, 77, son of the Chicago mayor murdered in his fifth term during the 1893 World's Fair, himself five times Chicago's mayor, and Edith Ogden Harrison; their 50th; in Chicago. Said spry Mr. Harrison, who nightly takes a drink: "Family spats . . . add spice to married life, provided they are not allowed to go too far." Asked his wife's age, he replies: "She never gives the same one twice...
Minneapolis, which had already lost half a school term since 1933 through shortened semesters, extended the holiday from two to three weeks as its school funds again ran low. This means a week's layoff for teachers on top of a 12% salary...
...special tax levy to the voters. It was narrowly defeated (93,312-to-90,246) and the school year was shortened from ten to eight-and-one-half months. This fall a special tax levy for the next biennium was approved, but there is no certainty of a full term next year because revaluation of property may cut the board's income...
...York's newest Congressman, Bruce Barton made a novel bid for election to a law-creating body by promising to repeal a law every day of his term in office Here was a public display of a widely held opinion which is expressed in Middletown by "There are too dammed many laws in this country." Governor Quinn, the Wizard of West Warwick and Walter O'Hara, the Pawtucket Flash concur in this opinion, for according to Professor Chafee these two bulls have locked horns in, of all places, the china shop of the legal system, and they have broken most...