Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was bigger news in Oregon than it was in Washington. Because many an Oregon Democrat, including popular ex-Townsendite Willis Mahoney who almost beat Leader McNary in the 1936 elections, was already primping for Fred Steiwer's seat, Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin found the prospect of picking one for an eleven-month recess appointment highly perplexing. The Governor had to step carefully since he is up for re-election himself this year, on the outs with Oregon's left-wing Democracy which has never forgotten that he registered Republican before he retired from the Army...
...into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other capacity,'' practically made a bid for Alben Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate...
Leading Congressional tax authority is Representative Fred Vinson, a 48-year-old statistically-minded Kentuckian who has made taxation his legislative hobby. He is the driving force behind the new bill but it will be his last, for President Roosevelt has rewarded him with a $12,500 seat on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals...
This week, while Happy Landing played five times a day at Manhattan's 6,000-seat Roxy Theatre, Sonja herself was spending at least 35 minutes a night for five nights in her Hollywood Ice Revue on the broad ice patch of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 17). From her personal appearances, which began last month in Chicago and will close late next month in Miami on an especially constructed rink, her net earnings will approximate...
...gyrus cinguli, a belt-shaped organ lying above the thalamic region. This is the receiving gate for impulses going into the cerebral cortex. It appears to be the seat of vigilance and of sex emotions...