Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subject to a half-dozen contests and recounts for House seats and one Senate seat (Indiana), this was the precise measure of national Republican resurgence. Not one of 103 incumbent Republicans had failed to regain his seat. Of 25 former Republican incumbents who tried to come back. 14 succeeded, whereas of the House's 38 "Young Turks" (150% New Dealers), 14 were gone. Republican gains were made in 23 States outside of the ''too, too solid" South. In eight farm States their ains were 29 House seats, three Senate. In ten Eastern industrial States they were...
...ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive, an automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between 23 and 35 m. p. h., cutting the motor speed down almost to that of the drive shaft. Not the same as freewheeling, the overdrive provides free...
...Baltimore, Ambrose J. Kennedy, Democratic candidate for U. S. Representative from Maryland, was making a political speech in the Thomas Jefferson Club's hall, which has a seating capacity of 200. One hundred and ninety-nine seats were filled. Suddenly a heavy electric light globe plopped down from the ceiling, hit the one vacant seat...
...lady with arthritis lived on Brookline Street and had a name that began with a V and looked as well back-wards as it did forwards. She finally decided that it was she whom they were looking for and hobbled in to the back seat. She interrupted the campaign fight talk by saying. "I know, I know! I'm thpothed to wote for Thalberg, I mean Thaltenberg. He'th a good man. I always wote for the Wepublicanth. They alwayth good men." She was given an already marked ballot for safety, however, to guide her. In the polls she took...
HARLAN, Ky (UP)--Three men, one an election official, were killed late today in a gun battle allegedly over possession of a ballot box being carried to the country seat...