Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the project of planting a $75,000,000 belt of trees as a means of land reclamation was last week running into considerable ridicule. Near broiling Manhattan, Kans. a farmer drawled to an out-of-town newshawk: "Have you ever been to those small western Kansas county seat towns? If you have you may have noticed the trees about the public buildings. They have been trying for 20 years to raise trees in prepared soil and right now they have not got them much more than ten feet high...
Died. William Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries...
...investment of Woodyard Publications of West Virginia and of New York is $395,000, an average cost of approximately $16.500 per weekly newspaper. Average price paid in Long Island: $10,000. The Brothers Woodyard bought county seat weeklies for as little as $2,900. as much as $29,000 (Fayetteville, W. Va. Tribune). All prices were without receivables. Six months' earnings by Woodyard Publications were a little more than nearly 15% per annum...
...measure the Street last week quietly debated the possibilities of running Big Board pools from beyond U. S. frontiers. Few if any brokers can break even when a day's business averages 500 shares a member, yet some people are still willing to pay $96,000 for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...