Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long before the execution, Condon had entered into a contract with a sensational magazine for a series of articles entitled "Jafsie Tells All". Today, as Bruno Richard Hauptmann nears the death chair, as the New Jersey court of pardons turns down his plea for a respite and as the public sithers in a wave of doubt and high-feeling, Governor Hoffman hurls the credulous and timely challenge-Condon has not told all And implication adds:-he knows far more than he has told and he is fleeing the country in fear...
...enter a closed house; to stumble over a chair lying on the floor where it was overturned in the haste of departure; to discover the morning paper lying as usual on the sideboard where it was left four months earlier; to find a forgotten quarter-pound of butter in the icebox- such will be the experience of the 74th Congress as it meets this week. This will be no new Congress but merely a second assembly of an old one picking up where it left off Aug. 26. The bills then in committee pigeonholes will be found in the same...
...traditional spokesman of J. P. Morgan & Co., proved himself a very rich Harvardman. To Dr. Conant he wrote: "I am glad to give . . . $500,000 as a foundation for one of the University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call to this chair a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy. This vital subject has to do, I take it, with the fundamental principles which govern human affairs, as they concern the State and as they concern individuals. Political economy concerns itself as much with the behavior...
...elephant, beaming fondly at his squalling, illegitimate offspring, governing the country as The Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their loyalty by his coffin last week that the road was blocked for hours...
Last week the younger, more methodical of the two. Dr. Max Euwe, was the new world chess champion. A mathematics teacher at the Girls' Lyceum in Amsterdam, he puzzled stolidly over his plays while Dr. Alexandre Alekhine fidgeted and squirmed in the chair opposite him, smoked countless cigarets, gulped countless cups of coffee. At first, Champion Alekhine's brilliant attack, bordering on the reckless, put him in the lead. On his 43rd birthday, after three weeks of play, he was leading, 5-to-2. Unworried, unhurried. Challenger Euwe drew closer. His opponent's moves, as recorded...