Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army on the Mexican Border. A year later he landed in France, a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, A.E.F. Hotheaded, he was swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer cold. Horrified, he discovered he had floored his Lieutenant, a court-martial offense. From the guardhouse he was released to fight at Seicheprey...
...What is a Cathedral? It's a chair! That is what the word means. Chairs are like carpets. Most of them are rather settled in one place, but they don't have to be. ... What I want is a chair- a Cathedra-which is not fastened down in one church in one city, but which can travel around to every parish and mission in the diocese. Such a chair is rather useless if it merely provides a place for the bishop to sit. It must be surrounded with other essentials and other people. An altar for worship, books...
...this point Franklin Roosevelt, who had been sitting in his chair beaming upon press and Canada, quietly put in a word. Of course, he said, there could be no official talk, but if he and the Governor-General sat on a White House sofa, there was nothing in any constitution which could stop them from soliloquizing on international affairs. And neither of them was deaf...
...Lewis to Chair? Accustomed to his loud oratory, Washington correspondents paid small attention when Texas' young Martin Dies uprose in the House to berate the President for failing to use his "insurrection" powers against the Sit-Down. Cried he: "There can be no human or personal rights without property rights." They paid even less attention to the resolution which Representative Dies introduced for a House investigation of the Sit-Down and its causes. Even under the Old Deal, no Congressional investigating committee ever dared poke its nose far into the affairs of Labor. Under the New Deal, which...
...action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers and utilities magnates to a Congressional witness chair, there to have his inmost secrets exposed to public view...