Word: terming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outsider. In the general election of 1900, when the great Laurier was running for his second term as Prime Minister...
...work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district-Indiana, Armstrong and Cambria counties. She was campaigning to fill the unexpired term of her son. Colonel Robert Lewis Coffey Jr., World War II fighter pilot, killed last April in a jet-plane crash...
...young lady asked me if in five years she might be an ambassador," he told them, "I couldn't make her any promises because that is a year or two beyond the time when my term will expire." But he told them to keep informed on the Government, and one of them might even have "this terrible job which I have . . . and you might get a chance to live over there in that great white jail, with the balcony and everything...
...bourgeois institutions which the Russians have adapted to their own devices is the quiz program. The Russian version, however, would scarcely get a respectable Hooperating: listeners merely send in questions which omniscient Radio Moscow answers. When a "Soviet citizeness" wrote in recently to ask for a definition of the term "people's democracy," Radio Moscow replied that a people's democracy was a country of a new type, struggling ever onward, ever upward on the road to socialism...
Died. Charles Dewey Hilles, 82, Old Guard GOPolitico (chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1912-16); in Speonk, N.Y. He ran William Howard Taft's unsuccessful bid for reelection, was President Taft's personal secretary during his White House term; later, as national committeeman from New York, helped elect Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...