Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: mourning

A Memorial Day postcard.

"When can their glory fade."

"Will you help make November 6th, 1940, a day of thanksgiving, or will you make it a day of mourning? Save our Constitution! Uphold the precepts of our republic! No third term!" This small card was a protest against U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's run for an unheard-of third term in office during the 1940 presidential election . Although the U.S. Constitution did not specify how many four-year terms a president could serve, George Washington, the first president, informally set a precedent for a two-term limit when he refused to run for a third term. Roosevelt, however, disregarded precedent, won a third term in 1940, and then a fourth term in 1944 before he died in office in 1945. As a result, the U.S. Congress set a two-term limit in 1947 by passing the Twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified by the states in 1951.

For this photo, see the full cabinet card , a cropped version , and a close-up of the inset photo (above). Photographer: Beals, 23 Douglas Ave., Elgin, Ills.

For this photo, see the full cabinet card , a cropped version (above), and a close-up of the inset photo . Photographer: Beals, 23 Douglas Ave., Elgin, Ills.

For this photo, see the full cabinet card (above), a cropped version , and a close-up of the inset photo . Photographer: Beals, 23 Douglas Ave., Elgin, Ills.