Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid angry calls on Tammany Chieftain Hugo Rogers. Sol Bloom's district was good Democratic territory, and they had several deserving Tammany candidates for old Sol's job. They had had the place to themselves until a good-looking young lawyer from Long Island announced for the seat. His name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Then he sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time to work something...
...community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
...softspoken, self-effacing man (after his performance in Houston last week, he took a seat in the audience to listen to Efrem Kurtz conduct a Schumann symphony), Tossy is one of the few top U.S. concert violinists who have risen from orchestra ranks...
Last Straw. When he started, the church had 150 members. Now there are 744; an extra hall and loudspeakers are needed to accommodate the congregation on Sundays. Last month, ground was broken for a new $100,000 church which will seat 600 people. But for all these tokens of success, Pastor Douds's conception of Christianity has riled some influential members of his flock...