Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Congratulations . . . on bringing out and nominating not only a Progressive, energetic businessman but the only Republican who can stop Third Term Roosevelt and eventual dictatorship...
...week usual. In Chicago the Convention was existing. To many an appalled observer it seemed to be doing little more than that. In his last pre-Convention press conference the President had put off question after question hurled at him by reporters attempting to draw him out about the Third Term. He was, he said, President of the United States, sticking close to the affairs of the nation, as his position dictated; he would not go to the Convention. But the uncertainty over what he intended to do, how he would react when he received the nomination that all observers...
...merits Mr. Boyd saw in his plan: it capitalized on both men's personal popularity, it maintained the present foreign affairs "team," it kept Mr. Roosevelt's influence in the Administration, it gave people the chance to vote for him without raising the issue of the third term. Mr. Boyd posted his letter and waited...
News that Nominee Willkie heard with less indifference was a Gallup poll which found that he was already running close to Roosevelt in popularity. To the question, "If President Roosevelt runs for a third term . . . against Wendell Willkie . . . how would you vote?" 53% said Roosevelt, 47% Willkie...
Fortnight ago about 2,000 teachers from Midwest schools and colleges met in Chicago for their third annual Conference on Reading. A number of first-rate thinkers have been worrying about the subject for a good 15 years. On hand at the Chicago conference was one of the keenest of them: Ivor Armstrong Richards, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, collaborator with C. K. Ogden on the famed Meaning of Meaning (1923), author of numerous works that broke ground for such books as Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read A Book (TIME, March...