Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus embittered strikers and embittered employers both determined to fight to a finish. Powerless were Archbishop Hanna and his board appointed by the President. They could "find facts," offer to arbitrate but force no sort of peace. NRA likewise had no power. Said General Johnson in Portland: "The seat of the trouble out here is the fact that, due to cross currents, the shipping industry has no code...
...liberty to turn his attention to his hand-picked Legislature. With a flourish his automobile shot him up to the steps of the Capitol. Surrounded by plug-ugly bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green...
...Ambassadors of the Great Powers, though invited to be present by Speaker Göring, stayed home to a man. But except for the gaping diplomatic box the rest of Kroll Opera House was pack-jammed. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the brown-shirted Deputies marched to their orchestra seats. The lone little man in civilian grey in a front seat was Deputy Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, onetime "Hearst of Germany'' before Nazis regimented the Press. Smartly the Reichstag aisles were closed by S. S. Storm Troops, pistols on hips...
...nodded and said little. King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni stayed two full hours. As a send-off they got a fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored to the most imposing medieval stronghold in East Prussia, famed Marienburg Castle, onetime seat of the "Teutonic Knights,' a motley crew who left off crusading for the pious work of converting pagan Prussians. Coming from the Near East, they brought with them Oriental ideas of architecture. Last week Their Majesties spent a whole afternoon minutely examining a vast moated palace as grotesquely strange...
...years later Bardstown became the seat of a Catholic diocese which included Kentucky and Tennessee. Father Flaget, as Bishop, consecrated there the first Catholic Cathedral west of the Alleghenies. Corinthian columns were hewn from nearby forests and the interior was done in rich walnut...