Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office so that his friend and Harvard classmate, Edward Raymond Burke, could move in for a full six-year term as Senator from Nebraska, Richard Charles Hunter said mournfully: "I was a Senator, though, even if I wasn't sworn in. The sergeant-at-arms showed me my seat early in December. It had my name on it. I did a lot of work while I was here. I must have handled as many as 150 cases for veterans and others...
...aisle were 69 desks for 69 Senate Democrats. But the majority will not be able to muster 69 Democratic votes until after June 19 when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt celebrates his 30th birthday and thereby becomes constitutionally eligible to be sworn in and take his Senate seat...
...Election Day and in the choice of Speaker and Majority Leader of the House, Senator Guffey harvested the reward of power. One of his followers was made Democratic whip of the House and another was put on the important Ways & Means Committee. And Joe Guffey himself got a seat on the equally potent Senate Finance Committee...
...added the last "s" to his name after Boatbuilder Curtis's conviction. For weeks newspapermen have grumbled at the price this official put upon his good nature. Last week Governor Moore strongly rebuked him for accepting "donations" from newshawks at the standard rate of $10 for a downstairs seat or $5 for an upstairs seat at the trial. Sheriff Curtiss righteously protested that the "donations" were to be used for "fixing up" the courthouse for the trial. The Governor took the starch out of this protest by revealing that New Jersey had already appropriated $15,000 to cover...
...college, football & young love presents four young hoodlums turned from careers of crime by a kindly coach. As the "Four Bombers" they are supposed to be the greatest backfield in the U. S. The clowning of Leo Carrillo and Ted Healy. each of whom sets fire to the seat of the other's pants, does not save The Band Plays On from being worse than most of its kind. Silliest shot: Betty Furness telling her fiance, Robert Young, that he must continue college because as soon as he becomes a lawyer they will have plenty of money. The Mighty...