Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uneasy Seat. All this is such a contrast to the old, torpid, wicked days that optimists might decide that those days have gone forever. Maybe they have...
...state of Louisiana will nominate its next governor. The chief candidate is Sam Jones, who served his one term until 1944; Louisiana law does not allow a governor to succeed himself. Meanwhile Jones's friend, Songwriter Jimmy Davis, author of You Are My Sunshine, has been keeping the seat warm for him. Sam Jones should...
Mississippi voters had given ranting old Congressman John E. Rankin, last of their nationally notorious demagogues, the worst beating of his career. In a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Theodore G. Bilbo, John Rankin finished fifth among five...
...Metropolitan had become the world's leading opera house by default. It would have to earn the honor now, with European houses back in the running. Financially, the Met had never been in better shape. It was even a few thousand dollars in the black. The 3,459-seat house was 85% subscribed, the highest ever. Wagner's "Ring" cycle, one of its biggest drawing cards, will be back on the boards in new trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets by Broadway Designer Lee Simonson. Some scenes will...
Notre Dame-Army hadn't always been a rivalry that packed Yankee Stadium with violent partisans who had gone to neither school, and paid up to $100 a seat to act as if they were charter alumni. When it first visited West Point in 1913, Notre Dame was an unsung little Indiana college. In those days spectators got in free, Notre Dame got $1,000 guarantee for the trip and cleared $83 profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre...