Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant Governor Cyr broke with him, became his bitter foe. When Governor Long ran for the U. S. Senate last year he made another promise, aimed to reassure Louisiana voters, to discomfort Cyr, whom he called "the retired tooth chiseler." If elected, he promised, he would not take his seat until after his term as Governor expired in May 1932. He was elected...
Within a few hours Brer Briand, abetted by British Foreign Secretary the Marquess of Reading, had transformed the issue before the League into: Shall the U. S., which has always refused League membership, have a temporary Council seat? To U. S. observers this question proved roughly eight times as interesting as what happened to China or Japan. Despatches speculating on whether President Hoover (a onetime Democrat) was "trying to enter the League by the back door" were slapped under front page headlines three columns wide. Despatches datelined Tokyo, Nanking, Shanghai and Mukden were boiled down to second-page squibs. Even...
After the War the A. F. of L.'s power, the seat of which had been moved to a handsome Doric building on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue, dwindled. The Federation became more & more respectable. Its leaders had tasted national and international power, had associated as equals with the bigwigs of finance and politics. They decided to form banks which could lend money to fair employers, withholding it from concerns which favored the open shop. If Capital had to be fought, it would be fought with Capitalistic weapons. First labor organization to founder in this foreign field...
...which John Bellamy Taylor of General Electric used over 20 years ago, have shutters which rapidly and alternately blink the view of each eye. Viewing devices with special lenses, mirrors or prisms also permit stereoscopic effects. But each person in the audience must have a special pair for his seat...
...hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now and then. The big Condor flew smoothly on, directly over a predetermined spot, taking its directions from a small box under the pilot's seat-the Sperry automatic pilot, a device not unlike the Sperry gyroscope which guides vessels...