Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when that other Pennsylvanian, lame Thaddeus Stevens, made charges against Andrew Johnson, had the awful ritual of impeachment been uttered in the House against a U. S. President.* An excited buzzing broke loose as Representative McFadden passed his resolution to the clerk on the rostrum and took a seat on the front-row bench. Beneath his red hair his face looked pale and drawn. No man in the House hates President Hoover more intensely than he. Last session he accused him of treason in granting the Debt Moratorium (TIME, Dec. 28). He has fought the Hoover financial policy at every...
...seniority. By 1914 only Alabama's Underwood (tariff-maker) and North Carolina's Kitchin were ahead of him on the Democratic list. A year later Underwood had transferred to the Senate. Just as he was about to step out on top Representative Rainey lost his House seat to a Republican, shattered his seniority record. In 1923 he was returned to the House and again started his climb from the bottom up through the Ways & Means. During his two-year absence "Jack" Garner, who entered the House with him in 1903, jumped ahead. Well may Representative Rainey wonder what...
...newcomers in the next House the white hope is slim, bald Representative-elect James Walcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York.* Twelve years (1915-27) in the Senate, his seat in which he lost because he would not weasel on Prohibition, proved his worth as a statesman. "I'm not out of politics by a long sight," declared Mr. Wadsworth when he quit the Senate. Tried & true blood rather than young new blood (he is 55), Mr. Wadsworth is counted upon by G. O. Partisans not only to make a conspicuous House record for himself, despite the hobbling effects...
Most transport planes on U. S. airlines accommodate twelve passengers. In the past year such planes flew each trip with an average of seven seats empty, according to figures published last week by the Department of Commerce. The Department's analysis was begun October 1931, showed an average of 39% seat-occupancy for that month. The average dipped to 28% for the bad-weather month of December, climbed steadily to a 53% peak last August, dropped to 43% in October. Average for 13 months...
...picked up a flimsy biplane built by a Kansas City doctor, took a Swiss aviator as partner. The Swiss looked once, briefly, at the biplane and vanished. Rather than see the machine rot on its wheels, Gates started the engine one day, mounted the rickety seat, started taxiing about the field just for the fun of "grass-cutting.'' To his astonishment the plane rose some 20 ft. Hastily Gates shoved a lever, landed with a bang. On the strength of that maiden flight, Gates booked himself for a number of engagements as an aviator. Perhaps fortunately, a taxicab...