Word: sat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alben Barkley of Kentucky sat quietly in his Majority Leader chair on the Senate floor one day last week looking well contented. The great debate on the Relief bill was under way and he thought he knew how the voting would go. It would be close, but Alben Barkley repeatedly assured the White House that he had lined up five more votes than necessary to insert Senator McKellar's amendment to raise the total of $725,000,000 appropriated by the bill (the House figure) to $875,000,000, the figure desired by the Administration. So sure of himself...
...downright jurist who once kept a delegation of striking building workers away from his home with a shotgun. Every two years comes his turn to preside over his court's criminal division, and Judge Southern has taught wrongdoers to watch the calendar carefully. Last time he sat he tried to probe Kansas City's notorious 1936 election frauds, but Federal authorities beat him to the draw in a prosecution of 200 election officials and workers that severely shook the Pendergast machine...
Judge Southern summoned a county grand jury and ordered Prosecutor Graves to keep hands off the evidence he had collected (including a sucker list of Kansas City's amateur gamblers complete with their credit connections). As Prosecutors Graves and McKittrick sat by, jaws hanging, Judge Southern snapped to the jury: "Gentlemen, the prosecuting attorney denies ... a general state of lawlessness exists.. .. It is certain that the prosecuting attorney has not prepared and will not be able to prepare evidence of a thing which he says does not exist. . . . The Attorney General tells me ... he has obtained no evidence...
...donned his robes of office, Felix Frankfurter, former Law School professor, started the final formalities that placed him on the Supreme Court bench Monday. He was inducted into office and sat in on his first hearing...
...plane designers and engine builders expected a pat on the back from the Army Air Corps for their performance as of 1939, they were disappointed last week when Major General Henry H. Arnold, baldish Chief of Air Corps, sat down before the House Military Affairs Committee to sketch the needs of the nation's air defenses...