Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dakotas for two or three days and a conference with the Governors of those States, Wyoming and Montana; thence to Wisconsin for a conference with the Governors of Wisconsin and Minnesota, thence to Iowa for a conference with the Governors of-he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as he recited the list of States-Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas...
...short that the only way to make the publicly visible part of the Coronation any shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee. In Paris last week Edward VIII's coming Coronation inspired famed Style Creator Schiaparelli to bring out an autumn collection...
...this, furious uproar burst from both sides of the House. Unable to still its bedlam, the Speaker got up from the chair and by stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know...
Instead of calling a vote to suspend moderate Laborite Cocks for having committed the same offense as radical Independent Laborites Buchanan and Campbell Stephen, the Conservative occupant of the chair showed favor by merely chiding Mr. Cocks for using the word "liar." Taxed with favoritism, the Speaker sniffed: "I have to deal with cases as I find them." This touched off John McGovern, a third Scottish Independent Laborite famed for having once loudly abused King George (TIME...
...going," announced Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely after breakfasting with Republican Chair-man John Hamilton in Springfield, "to follow what I have always considered the ideals of the Democratic Party as I see them. It happens that in the coming election those ideals are espoused in national politics by the Republican Party...