Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear Arthur," began a personal letter in which the President last week offered Nebraska's Arthur Francis Mullen, his floor manager at the Chicago convention, a seat on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Mullen, whose friends had hoped he would get the Attorney Generalship, turned down the judgeship because "in these stern and tragic times I can render greater service to your administration as a private citizen...
...full Nazi uniform Chancellor Hitler popped from his seat, his little mustache twitching with excitement...
Officially Yosuke Matsuoka was on his way back to Japan to report to his government and resume his seat in the Diet. Unofficially he was in the U. S. to explain Japan's position on Manchukuo and the League. For that he is well equipped. Taken to Oregon at the age of 12 he lived there until after his graduation from the State University. He speaks English with only the faintest accent, thoroughly understands U. S. psychology, as he showed at the very outset of his interview...
Most precious description was Flyer Orie William ("Bill") Coyle's. He had "a ringside seat 9,500 ft. above the earth" in a Transcontinental & Western Air mail plane traveling East. Flyer Coyle, 37, quiet, learned accurate observation under stress during War bombardments. His report of what he saw was quickly reported by the Associated Press when he landed at Kansas City: "It was the most spectacular sight I ever have witnessed. The meteor appeared out of the northeast, traveling west by southwest. It was 5:15 a. m. Mountain Time, and I was over Adrian, Tex., 45 miles west...
Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, already a director of National Biscuit, took a seat on the board of Seaboard...