Word: mid-term
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...ingredients for a polit ical change at hand, Democrats were by no means so sure as they were two months ago. On their side was the great historical fact that not once in the last 58 years had the party in power lost control of the House at a mid-term election without also losing the Presidential election two years later. The reasonable discontent which produced the Democratic House victory in 1930 was stronger, if anything, today after three full years of Depression. All that seemed necessary was to translate reason able discontent into winning votes. The West, historically Republican...
...spite of general of opposition the University continues the April and November hour examinations. This mid-term check-up appears to have to become an established thing. The record which students make at these times puts them on probation and takes them off, and the reputation at the Dean's office of those less intimately concerned is at stake...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., famed golfer: "As a law school freshman at Emory University, I have pored long over my law books. Last week, when the mid-term examination marks were posted, my name led all the rest. My marks were: A in torts (the only A in the class); A in contracts (the first A made in two years); B in public utilities and B in pleading (only two marks were better) ; C in property (highest mark in the class). It was pointed out that few of my classmates had had my opportunities. Before attending Emory Law School...
...which Senator Pepper represented is perhaps dubitable. Although the Secretary of the Treasury backed the Senator, Mr. Coolidge held off his official support until the last moment. The insurgent Republicans have never been strong in the Keystone State and whatever reaction exists can probably be interpreted as the traditional mid-term anti-administration threat...
...committee voted ten to one in advising this choice, the Senate ratified it by a margin of only four ballots. The matter had been left suspended so long that it involved not only the politics of the last election and of the Senate generally, but also of the coming mid-term campaign. Despite the unanimity of the committee, there was no certitude of the actualities of the lowa election sufficient to preclude the play of political preference on the floor of the Senate...