Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence the entire 60,000 votes, it gives Coughlin one vote for every other 700 votes possessed by citizens who are not fortunate enough to be able to broadcast their views on the radio at the expense of ignorant people who probably believe they are paying for a seat in Heaven and not for notoriety for a windy priest...
Accomplished Fact. Conversely, a thing which made it hard for any New Dealer to consider scrapping NRA was that it was an accomplished fact, huge and substantial. In Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce Building it rambles through a vast suite of offices. In the seat where Hugh Johnson once sat alone, now sits the National Industrial Recovery Board with S. Clay Williams as its chairman. Beside him sit his four horsemen: Leon C. Marshall, political economist; Arthur D. Whiteside, executive of Dun & Bradstreet; Sidney Hillman, labor executive; Walton H. Hamilton, lawyer and economist-a potent team whose days...
...Spear, was elected president of the New York Curb Exchange, No. 2 U. S. securities market. Son of a minor Erie R. R. official who died when his son was 15, President Moffatt got his start as a Postal Telegraph messenger boy in Scranton, Pa. He bought his Curb seat in 1923, two years after that boisterous outdoor market sought the dignity and protection of a roof...
...inter-company service contracts will be abrogated next January, and service, sales and construction affiliates, often a seat of nepotism and a source of unconscionable personal profits, will be placed under the Federal Power Commission's strict supervision. By 1937 no holding company may own both domestic and foreign properties unless economically and geographically justified-a direct hit on Electric Bond & Share, whose foreign holdings are grouped in American & Foreign Power and include Shanghai's biggest dynamos. Natural gas properties must be divorced, hitting particularly Columbia Gas & Electric and Electric Power & Light. Restriction of holding companies to ownership...
Undoubtedly more harmonious relations could be maintained with the Mexican Government should Mr. Daniels be pushed upstairs--if need be to a seat in the Cabinet or some executive position under the Administration. A cordial, restrained, and tactful man of the type of Dwight Morrow is needed down in Mexico City, an ambassador who can readily adjust himself to the Latin game of international relations and yet retain a warmth of sympathy and understanding of their vexatious problems...