Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disturbance was not squelched. Directly under the rostrum, Chicago Boss Jake Arvey and Adlai Stevenson, candidate for governor of Illinois, continued to yell at the chair. California's hulking Chairman Jack Shelley, an ex-University of San Francisco football tackle, plunged up the aisle to the platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...
...unseemly shots. Two guests, both past their prime, met in the ladies' lounge. One wore a vast feathered hat, the other a bonnet and velvet chin strap. Said Feathers to Bonnet: "What kind of get-up is that, you silly old turkey?" Retorted Bonnet: "Go roll your wheel chair...
...Gasperi flung a final taunt at Di Vittorio, who sat sullenly near the empty chair of Togliatti: "Before the Confederation of Labor decided to resume work, the conscience of the majority of the workers had already called off the strike." This was a telling shaft; even before the strike officially expired (Thursday midnight), workers were returning to factories here & there, shops were pulling up their shutters, and the brightly dressed creatures of Via Veneto were emerging once more from their palatial hideouts...
...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...
Following the tactics of Communists and of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," the left-wing leaders refused to answer. In the now familiar pattern, they tried to 'turn the witness chair into a soapbox, hurled accusations at the Congressmen, and got themselves thrown...