Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George F. Lull, the A.M.A.'s general manager, arrived to offer a posy: for the first time in its 102 years, the A.M.A. was going to seat a Negro, Harlem's Dr. Peter M. Murray, in its House of Delegates. But Dr. Lull soon revealed the political wiring in his bouquet...
Nationalist China, now formally abandoned by the U.S., crumbled faster & faster. On the day the State Department issued its White Paper, Red columns led by Manchurian General Lin Piao marched unopposed into Hunan's capital of Changsha, last major city between the Communist armies and Canton, seat of the Nationalist government...
John Foster Dulles, freshman Senator from New York, who was denied a seat on the potent Foreign Relations Committee because of seniority, brought his formidable knowledge of world affairs to bear in a consolation post-the District of Columbia Committee, which runs the city of Washington. "I am generally," said Dulles, "in favor of killing off the starlings. They are an importation from Europe that is not good...
Stanford was re-elected last June. When the town council of Brentwood refused to seat Stanford unless he took the full oath, including the clause on religion, he appealed to the Prince Georges County circuit court to order the council to seat him. Then he set about preparing his case for a hearing late this month. The court will be asked to decide whether the Maryland code is depriving Stanford of his constitutional rights under Amendment 14, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution, which protects basic civil rights of U.S. citizens from abridgment by any state...
British voters in West Leeds, Yorkshire, have lost a lot of faith in the Labor Party; but a majority are still doubtful whether the Tories offer anything better. In a by-election last week, Labor won the parliamentary seat by a margin greatly reduced from the 1945 general election vote. It was Labor's 51st by-election victory since 1945. Labor defeats: none...