Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cultivated voice. It carried a New England twang. Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, lolling in the presiding officer's chair, peered toward the rear of the Chamber. A stocky man with a large flat face and slightly twisted nose was standing at a desk. Mr. Minton, who went to the Senate only last January, had never seen the gentleman open his mouth before except 1) to take a chew of Five Brothers* and squirt tobacco juice at the spittoon beside his chair; 2) to pass the time of day with one of his strolling colleagues; 3) to vote...
...office where they found the stage all set for an extraordinary performance. At one side of his desk were stacked about 20 selected telegrams; at the other lay an open copy of the Supreme Court's decision. In the background sat Mrs. Roosevelt, knitting a blue sock. Another chair behind the President was reserved for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Robinson who arrived ten minutes after the show started. Circulating among the correspondents was Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, old, wise, grumpy...
President Roosevelt rocked back in his swivel chair, lighted a cigaret, jestingly asked the assembled reporters if they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes...
...McDowell entered the operating room, threw his hat, cane and coat on a chair, rolled up his sleeves, prayed: "Direct me, Oh God, in performing this operation for I am but an instrument in Thy hands and am but Thy servant. If it is Thy will, spare this afflicted woman...
...conspirators, worked as a railway and mining engineer for 20 years before becoming an unsuccessful politician and a successful professor. He had built up a reputation as an economist, married unhappily, accumulated a tremendous fund of information on history, literature, the natural sciences, before he was offered the chair of political economy at Lausanne in 1894. The untrained U. S. reader who opens The Mind and Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable...