Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Emerson is stroking the Elephant eight, one of the strongest threats to the Deacon's crown. At seven is Arthur Hadden. Walter Klein is rowing six, George Fox five, Crosby Keller four, Arnold Cook three, John Lloyd two, and Edward Walkley is in the lighthouse seat. Bob Proctor is coxing...
...first official announcement about the Duke of Windsor ever to be made from Windsor Castle, country seat of King George VI, was released last week...
...scene of more than common interest and activity. True to form, with the Democratic primary elections a fortnight away, last week the Florida peninsula was restlessly ending a notably lively three-cornered fight for the nomination which would mean the occupancy of Claude Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages and sun-blistered swamp towns, its resort cities and its inland flatwoods...
...ride to hounds, has no relatives at J. P. Morgan's. At 27 he has been in Wall Street barely long enough to learn the ropes with his Uncle Harold at Hoppin Bros. Last week young Broker Haughey found himself scheduled to get Richard Whitney's seat on the New York Stock Exchange.. He had not asked for it, had merely filed a bid of $59,000. Since this was $7,000 above the previous sale, which had set a 20-year low, the Exchange quickly accepted it. With Dick Whitney just leaving for Sing Sing...
...when 24 brokers got together under a buttonwood tree at what is now 68 Wall Street, a "seat" meant a seat in the trading hall. But as the Exchange expanded, seats became valuable less as certificates of participation in the tangible assets of the Exchange than as indications of the earning power and condition of the market. Seats were first offered for sale in 1868 when membership stood at 500. During the '70s they sold at about $5,000. By 1929 membership was up to the present 1,375, price of a seat reached...