Word: terming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other question concerned his willingness to run for a third term. Fred W. Perkins, oldtime newshawk attached to Scripps-Howard's Pittsburgh Press, brought it up. Robert Post, Harvard '32 and a lodge-brother of the Roosevelts in Harvard's Fly Club, now a newshawklet for the New York Times helped to push the question home...
...bumbling Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, heartily first-named hundreds of Congressmen. Representative Martin Dies of Texas inducted the President into the Demagogues Club, asking him to promise: to favor all appropriation bills and oppose all taxation bills; not to harm his chances for a third term; never to be consistent even though sorely tempted to be so; not to submit controversial legislation to Congress. Applause and laughter drowned out most of the President's answers...
...Between the third term precedent and the welfare of the country, can any patriotic citizen hesitate as to which course he will take...
...fact that he was able to go out and effectively stump his State last autumn, helping to bring Pennsylvania into the Democratic column for Franklin Roosevelt. Not only as an ardent but as a potent New Dealer, Governor Earle's announcement that he favored a third term for Roosevelt was significant...
...Since Franklin Roosevelt has already made sounds intended to indicate that he will not be a candidate there is no one safer for another candidate to plump for. 4) By speaking up, Governor Earle got himself what every candidate needs most, early publicity. Finally, though a third-term campaign might wreck Franklin Roosevelt if he pressed it, acting as its first sponsor could not harm George Earle and bringing it into the open early might be the best way of heading...