Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt had given something more than tacit consent to the retirement of Madam Secretary Perkins to a back seat in labor affairs. While the Labor Bill was in the making Mme Perkins fought to have its execution vested in her department rather than in an independent Labor Board. Congress rebuffed her. The President in signing the act hammered that rebuff home: "It should be clearly understood that [the Labor Board] will not act as mediator or conciliator. . . . The function of mediation remains, under this act, the duty of the Secretary of Labor. ... It is important that the judicial function...
...Council was Socialist Pierre Godin. He and Jean Chiappe had been intimate friends for years. Their friendship did not break up when the scandals of the Stavisky case and the February riots forced the resignation of Jean Chiappe, but when a Chiappe candidate beat out Pierre Godin for his seat on the Council, that 60-year-old politician saw red. To the Press he rushed with an open letter to M. Chiappe that said among other things...
...Constitution (No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years. . . .), Senators enlarged for hours on their meaning. Did that mean that a Senator must be 30 when he was elected? Or when his term normally began? Or when he claimed his seat? Senator Hiram Johnson of California excused his argument against the last contention by turning to the Holt parents in the gallery and declaring: "I take this course solely because I believe it is every man's duty to do the things he thinks he ought...
...white, colonnaded Hermitage mansion, slave quarters and other plantation buildings were purchased by Henry Ford last March for $10,000. Section by section the century-old brick structures were dismantled, barged down the Savannah River, up the Ogeechee to become the seat of the 75,000-acre domain which Mr. Ford has pieced together from 30 antebellum plantations for a winter home in Bryan and Chatham Counties...
...distiller; after long illness (pneumonia); in London. Broker Bradley entered the whiskey business as a young man at Frankfort, Ky., was president of the "Whiskey Trust" for twelve years. Famed Bradley brands: Old Crow, Old Hermitage. No less famed was the Bradley mansion in Washington, with its 500-seat theatre, known as Aladdin's Palace. Tiring of Washington, Distiller Bradley had his home moved stone by stone to Newport...