Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago on windy Lake Washington, the California crew that later won the Poughkeepsie Regatta and the Olympic Championship, won its first race of the season. The other boat was Washington's. Hopelessly outclassed from the start, rigged too low for the choppy water, with seat tracks awash after the first mile, it trailed in 18 lengths behind...
...colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...
Price, accused nine young Negroes of raping them as they hoboed their way in a freight gondola through Jackson County, Ala. Eight of the Negroes were condemned to death at Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy...
...make the flight, Lord Clydesdale had to get permission from his Scotch constituency. Aged 30, two years ago he won a seat in the Commons. At Oxford (where he did not belong to the Pacifistic Union) few expected Lord Clydesdale to become much of a politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke...
Cincinnati police stopped Charles D. Evans. Indianapolis contractor, because he was driving with 1932 license plates, found in the back seat the body of his divorced wife, cut into 14 pieces. Butcher Evans whipped out a razor, cut his throat. Soon Cincinnati newsboys were crying: "All about de Jigsaw Moider...