Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress: He lost no time identifying himself as an economic and political Leftist. His Senate seat was hardly warm before he began a spectacular career as an investigator. He introduced the resolution to dig into Department of Justice dirt, acted as special prosecutor for the investigation committee, discovered the bootlegging connections of the Ohio Gang, put the names of Jesse Smith, Roxie Stimson and Gaston B. Means in headlines, forced President Coolidge to accept Attorney General Daugherty's resignation. Further probing into the Alien Property Custodian's office, he sent Custodian Thomas Woodnut Miller to the penitentiary...
...Hyde Park a stream of visitors poured in & out of the President's mother's comfortable country seat: Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, who thought that additional taxation could be avoided next year; Utah's Senator King, who wanted the Government to buy more silver; NRAdministrator Johnson, who talked until midnight with the President about pulling NRA off the rocks. Tentative plan: to decentralize NRA's high command into three branches, executive, judicial, legislative...
...Irish made trouble first. Soon after the League Council and Assembly convened fortnight ago, the diplomacy of M. Barthou had seemed to remove all obstacles likely to block Russia from being received into the League with a permanent seat on the Council (TIME, Sept. 17). Poland, having first held out for a permanent seat for herself if Russia got one, finally backed down. The scruples of Argentina and Portugal had been overcome. All that remained was to get quietly on paper an invitation to Russia and a Russian acceptance in exact legal forms which would be mutually acceptable to both...
...Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which M. Benes stuffed into his pocket before dashing back to Geneva. President Benes convoked the Council. Then Poland, at M. Barthou's behest, was constrained to vote for Russia to receive a permanent Council seat as soon as the Assembly goes through the motions of voting the thoroughly invited Soviet Union into the League. This was considered last week a mere formality, since M. Barthou had apparently corralled more than enough votes to put through the Assembly balloting this week. In Paris, therefore, the Gascon...
...smooth the way for his fiancée at Balmoral Castle, Prince George left her in Paris and dashed alone to Their Majesties' Scottish seat, then back to London four days later to meet Princess Marina when she came over with her parents...