Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later in the chamber above the restaurant, Representative Braswell Deen of Georgia tried to yank back into his seat another Democrat who had risen to vote with Republicans. Republican Ralph Eltse of California leaped across the aisle, flung Mr. Deen roughly into another seat. The Georgian rose and doubled up his fists. The Californian raised his hands defensively. The sergeant-at-arms scurried up the aisle and escorted Mr. Deen from the chamber...
...went over to one of those tablets which commemorate our dead in the Civil War and there removed his shoes and socks. Taking a bottle from his pocket, he emptied its contents on the offending areas. Two minutes later, lotion, socks, and the student were back in their seat again and the exam was proceeding serenely. No protest was heard...
...State department of education. Same year he successfully stood for election to Congress from the 6th (later the 7th) District of Ohio. He was successively re-elected until 1922, having resigned Antioch's presidency in 1917. In 1922 with strong female and Dry support he won his seat in the Senate, defeating Democratic Senator Atlee Pomerene. In Congress: Except for one innocent flutter toward Progressivism in his early days in the House, his Congressional career has been marked by the strictest party regularity. He thinks regular, talks regular, votes regular. As chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee...
...presiding officer sat Montana's white-mopped John E. Erickson, 71, who stands 6 ft. 3 in. in stocking feet. Thrice elected Governor of Montana, Democrat Erickson resigned that job year ago last March. Few minutes after his resignation, his lieutenant governor appointed him to the Senate seat of the late Senator Walsh. Now Senator Erickson, elbow on desk, cheek upon hand, appeared not to hear the request of the Senator from Michigan...
...gavel at a Democratic State convention, hammered his candidate into the nomination and subsequent election as Governor. The Tennessee Legislature was in his pocket in 1911 when he, aged 31, was elected to the U. S. Senate. The Constitutional Amendment for the direct election of Senators cost him his seat in 1916, but two years later impulsive Luke Lea was piling up an impressive War record in France as colonel of field artillery in the 30th ("Old Hickory") Division of Tennessee and Carolina boys. He fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, won a Distinguished Service Medal and in December...