Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized. Henceforth child & orchid will bear the same name: Kate Roosevelt...
...against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair with a bullet through his heart, Alexander dying, a suicide...
...quarter-mile-long artificial terrace, Dr. Erich F. Schmidt of Chicago's Oriental Institute came upon two magnificent pieces of wall sculpture, each 20 ft. long. They depicted the same scene, a royal audience, as viewed from right and left. Xerxes stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded...
...members of the bar were denied free access to the courtroom and the Mayor, who is himself an Ipswich magistrate, was admitted only after arguing with his own police. In English divorce proceedings the wife, when examined by the Court, must stand in the witness box, which has no chair. Last week matters had been so arranged that all courtroom gallery seats faced by Mrs. Simpson from the box were vacant. Tickets were issued only for a few seats to which her back was turned...
...candidate for Governor and rated one of the State's smartest politicians, would run well ahead of him on the Republican ticket. But when Franklin Roosevelt swept even Alf Landon's home State, he carried a Democrat, Walter A. Huxman, along to fill Alf Landon's chair on Jan. 1. Farm-born near Pretty Prairie, outspoken, aggressive Governor-elect Huxman served on Kansas' State Tax Commission under onetime Governor Harry H. Woodring. Acting Secretary of War Woodring and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering, who still boss the Kansas Democracy from Washington, picked...