Word: seat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still is far from U.S. standards. By haunting the Government, we seem likely to get a phone (in Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs...
Unfortunately, the power to seat Bilbo or throw him out did not rest with the committee, but with the Senate itself. Despite the evidence, it would be extremely painful for the club to cut off its festering member...
Conscientious as he was, Harry Truman could whip up little enthusiasm over the prospect of his three-ply job. Last year, with a Democratic majority in Congress, his efforts had produced few results. With the G.O.P. in the driver's seat he could expect to be even less effective in guiding the Congress. About the best course he could set lay along the line of middle-of-the-road generalities which would commit the Democratic Executive as lightly as possible...
Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...
...nomination in 1948 (TIME, Dec. 30) tempted no older hands to the same early statement of aims. But other obvious candidates were watching, and two of them were from the same state: Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and her former Governor John Bricker, who will take his seat in the Senate this week. In 1940 Bricker had stood aside and let the 50 votes of the Ohio delegation go to Taft. In 1944 Taft had returned the favor, and Bricker had won the vice-presidential nomination. Last week in Washington, Bob Taft let it be known that this...