Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allied himself with the cause of the workingman and against Anaconda Copper by specializing in compensation cases. In 1910 he supported the late Thomas J. Walsh in his first U. S. Senatorial campaign. Walsh was defeated, but Wheeler was sent to the State Legislature. When Senator Walsh won his seat in 1912 he did not forget his young ally. In 1913 President Wilson appointed Wheeler U. S. District Attorney for Montana. His corporate enemies spent five futile years trying to get him out of office. He handed in his resignation in 1918, only to run unsuccessfully for Governor...
...Russia into the League with a permanent seat on the Council...
After a routine opening, the Council met secretly for its second session, which lasted 15 minutes, ended in a deadlock on the issue of Russia's permanent seat, with Poland and Portugal obstructing action which must be unanimous in the Council...
...every resource to win the State election. Republicans expected, with the aid of Maine's normally Republican, normally conservative votes, to re-elect Senator Frederick Hale. They hoped to re-elect bald, dapper Representative Carroll Beedy of Portland, and to elect former Governor Ralph O. Brewster to a second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat in the House, held by Edward Carleton Moran Jr.; Maine's Governorship, held by Louis J. Brann...
...Fagioli. crossed the finish line in front of the grandstand where 50,000 people were shouting loud enough to drown the sound of the cars roaring in behind him. His time, in a Mercedes shaped like a blunt crochet-hook with a notch for the driver's seat, averaged 105 kilometres an hour, 70 kilometres slower than his winning speed over the old course last year...