Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover)* A White House car with a lady and gentleman on the back seat purred into the private Presidential entrance of Washington's Union Station one day last week. The gentleman was Colonel Louis McHenry Howe wearing his usual high collar, his usual dyspeptic expression. As the car halted the lady leaped out to be greeted by Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of the Senate Halsey. Passing them all by, she made a beeline for a little, sharp-nosed, red-faced man who had just driven up in a big, black, shiny 16-cylinder Cadillac...
...many years since a similar contest has been staged in Cambridge. With the coming of prohibition and the subsequent popularity of cruder forms of alcohol, beer has been forced to take a back seat position. Authorities on the subject feel that Harvard men today cannot make a decent showing, since lack of practice and bad alcohol have done little to develop undergraduate stomachs...
...flew Inspector Hugh H. Clegg to direct the hunt of thousands of Federal, State and local officers for the only man who had ever lived to kill more than one Department of Justice agent. Early next morning the dead agents' automobile was found abandoned in suburban Winnetka. The front seat was caked with blood. Soon after in Niles Center a bundle of blood-soaked men's clothes was picked...
When another Laborite accused the Duke of Kent by inference of being a loafer and asked if ?25,000 a year about covered the needs of an unemployed man and his wife, the Prime Minister resumed his seat without deigning to reply...
...Rochester, 30 mi. north, without setting foot off its own land. Depression has dealt lightly with Geneseo's 2,260 inhabitants, who work on farms or in the cannery & jam factory, or teach in the State Normal School, and deposit their money in the Wadsworth bank. Thriving seat of Livingston County, the town supports two weekly newspapers, the Livingston Republican and the Livingston County Leader. Last week the Leader made big local news...