Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confiscatory taxes on incomes and estates are claiming vast fortunes that would ordinarily be left for educational purposes. Today the Tax Collector comes first. The ambitious boy or girl takes a back seat...
COMING out of Harvard 1 yesterday a sturdy youth, who had finally yielded as much as to wear a coat to class, said in unmistakable terms that hard as it was to find an empty seat, if was worse to find room for his coat...
...Joseph P. Kennedy, spent an hour with him before packing for Europe and the Court of St. James. Chairman Splawn of the ICC talked over the rate increases which his Commission is expected to grant the railroads. Congressman Lucas of Illinois, fresh from announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat held by William Dieterich, solicited support for his campaign. Aubrey Williams, Administrator of WPA (vice ailing Harry Hopkins), discussed the spending of the new quarter-billion-dollar relief appropriation...
...reached Brussels last week on his first visit to Europe in nearly 20 years. Every Belgian paper, from Communist to Rexist, dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait of the late great King Albert, but dedicated to Herbert Hoover...
...last week the President's mother went to see George M. Cohan impersonate her son in I'd Rather Be Right, the musical comedy in Manhattan which mildly spoofs the Administration. Mrs. Roosevelt Sr. had reserved her seat in another name, but the news leaked out backstage. Actor Cohan, who would not harm a fly unless it was a typhoid carrier, soft-pedaled a line here & there. But at other lines of his, such as "'If Eleanor would stay at home, I'd get a decent meal," Eleanor's mother-in-law heartily...