Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Post Office Appropriation bill first came up two months ago, Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, seat of a big post office-box factory, got the authority for taking over Reedsville's output knocked out of the bill. When the bill went .to the Senate, that gallant body put the authority back in. Secretary Ickes remarked acidly that evidently Mrs. Roosevelt's "Socialistic project" was to be given a trial...
...Feverish preparations are now going on in Russia to withstand the Japanese plans. Russia has double-tracked its Siberian railroads; it has sent colonies of men into Siberia. But Russia's great difficulty is that it is too far away from the seat of trouble, Northern Manchuria...
...seat of Jefferson County is Louisville (pop. 1,650) which was the capital of Georgia from 1795 to 1805. In the centre of the town's old-fashioned Common still stands the roofed block on which until 70 years ago slaves were sold at auction. Above the block hangs the bell that summoned buyers and sellers of black flesh from the surrounding countryside. Last week, for the first time in years, proud little Louisville (pronounced Lewisville) found itself in the bright beam of national news...
...siphons and heavy saucers. A dozen times angry crowds, led by Royalists, were beaten back by police reserves. Meanwhile the first duel resulting from Stavisky revelations was fought by Deputy André Hesse and Lawyer Joseph Beneix in the empty stadium of the Parc des Princes which can seat 20,000. The duelists missed each other twice and stalked furiously from the field. When dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe privately warned Premier Chautemps that he could no longer guarantee the safety of Cabinet members, the Chautemps Cabinet resigned, rioting stopped...
...failed to keep a promise to repay borrowed money to a person and were ushered to a seat in the theatre next to him, would you change your seat...