Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week came a second dispensation of this politically potent plum. Senator James Michael Slattery of Illinois, who needs the big Negro vote on Chicago's South Side for re-election next year to the seat he inherited from the late "J. Ham" Lewis, got it for his former assistant on the Illinois Commerce Commission: dapper, long-faced Herman Emmons Moore, 46, one of the few Negro lawyers in Chicago with offices in the Loop district. Judge-Designate Moore, born in Jackson, Miss., is a Howard...
...Catholic beliefs, he summed up his own by saying: "The Baptist message is non-sacerdotal, non-sacramentarian and nonecclesiastical. Its teaching is that the one High Priest for sinful humanity has entered into the holy place for all, that the veil is forever rent in twain, that the mercy seat is uncovered and open to all, and that the humblest soul in all the world, if he be truly penitent, may enter with all boldness and cast himself upon Christ...
...record stood unchallenged till last month, when a wealthy widow named Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took her seat. In Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic...
...Farmall is lopsided, with its engine crowded over to its left front wheel, its seat close to its right rear wheel so that the driver can look down directly on the ground he is working...
Clustered in the 500-seat auditorium of Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce, 150 well-dressed, solemn delegates met one day last week in the 14th annual convention of the tiniest national group in U. S. finance: the National Negro Bankers' Association. Through the day they listened to many a solemn paper on subjects that the august American Bankers Association might have scheduled: profitable use of FHA mortgages, handling of bond accounts, ways of boosting depressed bank earnings...