Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women. With considerably more elation than was evidenced by the male delegates and alternates, 600 of whom canceled their hotel and seat reservations. Republican ladies trooped to their third convention. They raised their party's vocal tone, but those to whom attention was paid were chiefly the wives or relatives of well-known men. Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the Saturday Evening Post's editor, was alternate for sick Boss William S. Vare of Philadelphia, "hero" of the 1928 nomination of Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, sister-in-law of Michigan's football coach, directed...
What ardor was present resulted from the contested seating of blocs of delegates from South Carolina headed by Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., the South's arch Dry, sounded the same note: "Mr. Rockefeller's attitude is doubtless sincere, but it's not surprising to those who know the influences which surround him, living as he does where literally Satan's seat is, in the home of Alfred E. Smith, of Jimmy Walker and of the Tammany Tiger...
...arrangements. His job was to spend about $35,000 on Sidney Strotz's block-square, air-conditioned Stadium on West Madison Street. Some 250,000 yards of red-white-&-blue bunting had to be hung. Broadcasting equipment was to be put in for three radio chains. Press seats for 726 newsmen had to be built. Hot dog and pop concessions had to be let. The California, Maine and Pennsylvania delegations were to be seated in the front rows. Everyone who contributed $100 got a mezzanine seat. First balcony seats were sold to the public for $22, second balcony...
...Conn., June 7--A drastic shakeup in the seatings of the crews at Red Top today saw Parker, regular Jayvee stroke, setting the beat for the varsity, while Cassedy rowed at No. 2. Yeomans, who has held the No. 2 seat, took Parker's place, stroking the Jayvees...