Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upset that startled France most was that of Edouard Herriot. For the first time in his political career he failed to win his seat on the first election. Apparently the voters of Lyon felt not so guilty as he had hoped over France's failure to pay its War debt to the U. S. Piqued, M. Herriot cried loudly that he would retire forever from politics, a statement that required a soothing long-distance call from Premier Sarraut before M. Herriot would consent to participate in a run-off that should be a walkover...
...record of a sort was established by the town of St. Gaudens in the wine-growing Department of Haute-Garonne. Twelve hundred voters were faced with 111 candidates trying for one seat. Candidates included five barbers, three bakers, eleven shopkeepers, two printers, nine electricians, one professional wine-taster...
Getting down to facts, Editor Grey wrote: "The new generation, so to speak, of French bombers is a complete washout. . . . The French single-seat fighters are a washout also. . . . Year after year at the French Aero Show we have been shown the same high-speed French single-seat fighters. We have been told quietly that they were only there for show and that the real things were at Villacoublay or Buc, just being tried out and just about to do wonderful things. But these wonderful machines have never appeared. . . . Our information, which is quite reliable, is that...
...presidential race will leave the field to scholarship once the official benediction has been bestowed. No one need fear that the Senate will break up the celebration by recognizing Harvard's historic significance on the American scene, though the metropolitan press may regard the Tercentenary theatre as the seat of a war between Congress and the Corporation...
Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...