Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politics. The G.O.P. leaders also found time to plan a campaign against Democratic Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, the Mississippi mountebank (see PEOPLE). They had decided to challenge Bilbo's right to his Senate seat on the grounds that he incited whites to bar Negroes from the Mississippi polls in the Democratic primary...
Fortnight ago at the Army-Notre Dame football game, when he climbed to his mediocre seat (20-yd. line, high up under the eaves), hardly a head was turned. His clothes were still natty and at 65 he looked amazingly young. But he was not as young as he looked; he was not well. One night last week the tabloids gave him his first big headlines in more than a decade-he had suffered a cerebral thrombosis. Thirty-four hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to James John Walker, ex-mayor of New York, the dapper...
...brief digression on the nature of the New Haven trolley is first necessary. Open on both sides, the cars have seats extending across their full width from one side to the other. There being no center aisle, each passenger steps from the street into his seat, as in a European railroad coach...
Here, then, is the picture on Saturday afternoon, when huge crowds are besieging the New Haven Street Railway. Travelling in large groups, the Elis attack the waiting streetcar in flying wedge formation and contrive to place their dates in some available seat. They then retire to the outer extremities of the car and seize upon some handy appendage from which they hang for the rest of the ride. As this handy appendage is frequently the collar of another Eli who in turn is hanging over the side of the car, it is possible to make the mile and a half...
...strike continues until then--and there was nothing to indicate tonight that it would not--steel mills will be closing down, railroads curtailing their service and crippling effects will begin to be felt throughout the country. Already a "brownout" had been ordered in Washington, the seat of government, including the darkening of the Capitol dome...