Word: seated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Seat Seventeen Hundred...
...many a year will Germans find a statesman to take the place in world politics of Gustav Stresemann. But last week they found a man to take the late famed Foreign Minister's vacant seat in the Reichstag...
...Stresemann's People's Party, failed to get into the Reichstag when he stood for election a year ago last Spring. Therefore he was on the panel of defeated candidates from which Reichstag vacancies must be filled under German law. The party of him whose seat is vacated is allowed to choose his successor from the panel. Last week it merely chanced that lucky Housepainter Havemann stood first on the People's Party's list of disgruntled gillies slated for easy honors...
Hoary and respected Professor Nicholas Jorga, onetime tutor of King Mihai's harum scarum and now exiled father, Prince Carol, rose from his Deputy's seat to propose the candidacy of his old pupil. A member of the Royal Family should be elected, he urged, but not a woman. "Have you forgotten," he cried, "that the Constitution restricts membership in the Regency Council as well as occupancy of the Throne to males...
...after candidates for Lynn's mayoralty had filed their papers, normal newspapers reported that the candidates numbered six. But the Enwright Telegram-News headlined: "Five Seeking Bauer's* Seat." This was neither a scoop for the Telegram-News nor an omission of ignorance. The omitted candidate was Lynn M. Ranger, president of the Lynn City Council. In 1927, when Mayor Curley jailed him, Publisher Enwright received a letter from Mr. Ranger alleging an Enwright "plot to defeat decent government." Result: Mr. Ranger's name is never printed in Mr. Enwright's newspaper...