Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...
...more & more at home, they liked especially the easy gradient of the outside deck stairways ("Easiest to climb on any ship"); the typically British kindness to animals in the ship's dog house where a fatherly sailor seemed busy all day petting, stroking, brushing; and the superb "front seat driver's view" of where the Queen Mary is heading obtained from the crescent-shaped bar forward...
...politically down & out. With an old trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens let him have most of the Mississippi patronage available that year. When Bilbo won, Harrison, though not fond of him, saw the wisdom of renewing his generosity. He introduced the gnarled little man to the Senate, showed...
...will have some respect for me." The U. S. Senate showed its feelings in the matter by confirming Judge Holmes's promotion 59-to-4 (TIME, March 30). Mike Conner, on the strength of a good record as Governor, announced himself a candidate for Pat Harrison's seat. "The Man" Bilbo chose between his old and new hatreds, instructed his lieutenants to line up for Conner. Chief Conner campaign cry: "Pat Harrison has got too big for Mississippi and is too busy with work for Roosevelt to take care of his consti-tuents." Quail 'Legging. Some political...
...were that the Left-controlled National Executive Committee had taken away the charter of the Right-controlled New York State organization and given it to a Leftist group; that the National Executive Committee had approved the credentials of the 44 Leftist delegates from New York, leaving 44 Rightists without seats. But there was a bigger division on the question of compromising with Communist methods of violence. Said Mr. Waldman scathingly of the Left: ". . . their so-called mass war resistance program is not Socialist, for it fights against one specific agency of the Federal Government, instead of attempting to get control...