Word: terming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That even a filibusterer can make an effective speech, however, was demonstrated when Alabama's Dixie Graves rose for her maiden Senate effort. Apologizing for her forwardness by explaining that the term to which her Governor husband appointed her would probably expire before the Anti-Lynching Bill was voted on, slender Mrs. Graves put her protest on record with ladylike dignity. Said she: ". . . If this bill is passed, you will say not merely to America but ... to the world, we have in our Union a group of Southern States that cannot or will not enforce the law. I cannot...
...Business to change even more drastically and more sincerely. Back in Washington after nearly three months of putting their ears to the ground, its members felt that they knew even better than the President what the country wanted. Whether or not the President means to run for a third term, most Congressmen's hearts are set on re-election and a Roosevelt Recession would be the worst possible 1938 platform. Major administrative hold on both Houses for the past five years has been the flood of Federal spending. With the President set on checking expenditures and balancing the budget...
...Harvard Monthly in its latest issue has chosen to criticize the delivery system in Widener Library, and to castigate what they chose to term the "unsavory labor policy" of the University. Accurate, reliable criticism which is derived from the actual facts, and truthfully reported, is helpful and always appreciated by the authorities; but libellous, false and publicity-seeking accusations only serve to alienate those against whom they are directed, and bring nothing but ridicule upon the accusers...
...Catholic conspiracies around Mary Queen of Scotland, and finally jailed for taking part in Essex uprising against Elizabeth. The third, Robert Poley, an important figure in the British secret service, had returned that morning from a confidential mission abroad. He had become Walsingham's agent after a term in jail, had wormed his way into intimacy with the leaders of the Catholic party, intercepted their secret correspondence with Mary when they were plotting Elizabeth's overthrow...
...both with regard to achievement and morale. Then, if never before, voices from all sides insisted that with the new commercialization in college competition Harvard could not win unless some modification of the "student first" rule took effect. Perhaps not proselytism in all the materialism of the term, but some arrangement to make it easier for stars to come here. On November 26 the Crimson joined others in expressing this view...