Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters he has not gone off into the wilderness with many other modern poets. Instead he has preserved and seasoned his outstanding poetic gifts with a mind looking toward the future. And thus it can be said of a distinguished man in a very distinguished chair, "The best...
...politicos free to wrestle with more immediate problems. Most immediate problem, whether General Flores da Cunha really could start a revolution, Getulio Vargas seemed to have for the moment well in hand. The next, whether he should succeed himself or put in a proxy president to warm his chair for him next year, Brazil was anxiously waiting for him to decide...
...tried in Sacramento, Calif. fortnight ago for flourishing a gun at his landlady and robbing her of $60. While Superior Judge Dal M. Lemmon was instructing the jury, Widener was seized with a coughing fit, left the room to recover, accompanied by two bailiffs. Back in his courtroom chair, Widener heard the finish of Judge Lemmon's jury charge, later heard the jury find him guilty of first-degree robbery and burglary...
...meeting was perfunctory. Then a serious-faced, bespectacled young man named Howard 0. Hatcher nominated President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers. Several staring stockholders snickered. One asked: "Is this a joke, or what?" Replied Chairman Smith: "No, it's meant seriously." Leaning back in his chair, Mr. Hatcher, who is research secretary for the Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian Churches, explained: "Since Mr. Martin has shown considerable interest in and understanding of General Motors . . . it might be a good policy to have Organized Labor represented on boards of directors." When ballots were counted...
...Wilks decided that she was making the going too easy for Lawyer Pennypacker. Brightening, she swiveled around in her chair toward Surrogate Owen, said...