Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, "Dispelling the Fog," added some to a moot question: "When they are not talking about the hopeless viciousness of the New Deal principles nowadays, they are invoking the old favorite fable of Roosevelt seeking a dictatorship. And then they trot out the old bogey of a third term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether the American people would permit him to lay down his burden in view...
...judicial calm of the Supreme Court, all this produced this week what in less august surroundings would have been a buzz of excitement. The opinion was the first of the Court's 1937-38 term. It also was the first one written by the Court's newest member and an exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black...
...Year before last the Court's nine old men were bathed in historic limelight when they waded into the New Deal's first crop of economic measures, invalidating NRA and AAA and upholding the Government's right to cancel the gold clauses in all contracts. Last term the nine were the centre of a political death struggle unequaled since the Civil War, brought about by Franklin Roosevelt's desire to insure the constitutionality of his future legislative program by adding sympathetic Justices to the bench. The excitement of the current court term will be different from...
...matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority, at least the Court's strongest minority, and, paradoxically for Mr. Roosevelt's conception that a Justice's conservatism varies directly with his years, the leadership of the Court's controlling sentiment falls to the Court...
Last week he followed upward another municipal chief who rode to a bigger job on that same flood, former City Manager Clarence Dykstra of Cincinnati, now president of the University of Wisconsin. For Neville Miller, whose term as mayor expires this month, was named assistant to Harold Willis Dodds, president of Prince ton. This means that beginning January 1, Princeton will be distinguished among U. S. universities in being run entirely by experts in municipal government, since President Dodds is already president of the National Municipal League. Assistant Miller will take over the administration in his superior's absence...