Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train, and this time the Special pulled out for good. The President settled back in his seat knowing that his 134-lb. sailfish, which would soon adorn the Smithsonian Institution, had not missed the train...
...Theta Xi Fraternity hid in the bushes, waited to see what would happen. Around the curve came a large sedan, struck the dummy squarely, sliced it in half, ground to a stop. A woman in a high state of nerves climbed quickly out of the driver's seat. Theta Xi's funsters blinked, gulped, ran away when they recognized Mrs. Herbert Hoover...
With this hoary political formula, handsome young Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., grandson and namesake of Massachusetts' late great Senator, put in his bid last week for the Senate seat of Democrat Marcus Allen Coolidge. Barely 33, Grandson Lodge realized that a picket fence of "ifs" still separated him from the most distinguished gentlemen's club in the land. He must first win the Republican nomination next summer and then the regular election the autumn after...
Jeers at Seaham. A piquant interlude last week was James Ramsay MacDonald's expression of a will to fight again for his seat in Seaham. This coal-mining constituency four years ago returned him to Parliament after he deserted the Labor Party and formed the National Government only because he was unopposed in Seaham by a Conservative candidate and because the Laborite coal miners' wives voted for silver-haired, throbbing-voiced Ramsay while their husbands called him a traitor blackleg, and worse...
...That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen in America's press," was obtained by Photographer Tom Howard, who wore a tiny camera strapped to his ankle, had a remote-control cable release in his pocket, gave the film a six-second exposure from his seat twelve feet from the chair. Newshawk Howard was given a $100 bonus, a trip to Havana for his pains...