Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace, maintains a garage in which 2,000 motor vehicles can lie in pawn, chiefly during the winter months when their thrifty owners see no sense in gadding about. Because everything pawned in France is automatically insured at lowest rates, wealthy Parisians often pawn their plate...
...President Wilson's three daughters, Spinster Margaret and Eleanor McAdoo live. Neither was among the Foundation banqueteers, nor was Mr. McAdoo, who had flown from California to take his seat in the Senate this week. But present was Widow Edith Boiling Gait Wilson (second wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath...
...that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat one year hence...
Prince Louis Ferdinand, son of the one-time German Crown Prince, was the sole passenger in a big red monoplane which Jimmy Wedell flies commercially between San Antonio and New Orleans. He willingly gave his seat to the Trammells...
...front mounds up in a smooth curve over the engine, with headlights and other gadgets embedded in its solid structure. The hump of the tonneau is in the centre rather than at the rear of the car. The engine is over, not behind, the front axle. The rear seat is moved forward some 20 inches from its old place on top of the rear axle to slope off the body. The front seat has been widened eight inches to hold three passengers comfortably. When and if streamlining is completed the running board will disappear and the engine will move...