Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were to receive honorary degrees. Also on hand was a Federal Commission authorized by Public Resolution No. 88 of the last Congress. At its head, in silk hat and cutaway, Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the Class of 1904 walked through the rain, seated himself in a red velvet chair on President Conant's right...
...early teens, a stranger appeared at the gate of the family home in Knightstown, Ind. and asked if it were the home of John Lehmanowsky. On being informed that it was, he came through the gate, and was met by her father, who had hurried from his chair on the porch at the sound of the stranger's voice. The two embraced and cried, talking in French and giving every evidence of being friends long parted who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night, and not until the gentleman had gone the next...
...afternoon many will again enter the Theatre for a "general meeting" of the alumni. With President Lowell in the chair as "President of the Day," President Roosevelt will be among the speakers at this time...
...conferences with State groups. Precedence was settled by admitting the groups according to the order in which their States had been admitted to the Union. Missouri (1821) went first, next Iowa (1846), then Kansas (1861). With Senators Capper and McGill and his four experts, Governor Landon pulled up a chair, spent half an hour discussing Drought in Kansas with the President and those other prime Republican targets, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Resettlement Administrator Tugwell. WPAdministrator Hopkins. Their talk, it was reported, differed not at all from others the President had been having on his tour. At its end Governor Landon...
PONG! I sometimes sit back in a big chair and try to visualize what the land around our home was like a long time ago before...