Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted (9-to-8) to seat Alabama's John Bankhead rather than its James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin...
...Budget. Promptly at 3:21 p. m. Edward of Wales, having climbed the narrow stair in the House of Commons to the Peers' gallery, entered smiling and took the seat from which H. R. H. hears all budget speeches, the seat directly behind the clock...
Another season of opera, for weeks a matter of front-page concern in Manhattan, was definitely decided upon last week by the Metropolitan Opera Association. Since Depression started, aviation companies have cut their seat-prices, steamship berths are cheaper. The Metropolitan is attempting to solve its financial difficulties in the same fashion. Orchestra seats will cost $7.15 as against $8.25 this year. Seats in other parts of the house will be correspondingly cheaper...
...inherit their politics from famed kinfolk. Conspicuous is David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale 1920, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, grandnephew of the late William Howard Taft, who is now seeking to become Governor of Ohio. Robert Marion ("Bob") LaFollette, 37, fills his late father's seat in the Senate. He studied at the University of Wisconsin as did his brother Philip Fox LaFollette, 35, Governor of Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded his father as U. S. Representative from Minnesota. James Jeremiah ("Jerry...
...months ago Jerome Dunstan ("Jerry") Travers, U. S. amateur golf champion in 1907, 1908, 1912, 1913, U. S. open champion in 1915, sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first...