Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserted country road a few miles north-west of Boswell, Okla. and decided to wait for dark. Farmer Trimmer, a silent man, was-still at the wheel, with Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living on liquor and were dog tired, were sort...
...hillside 1,000 feet away to see scenes from the life and passion of Christ, enacted for the 15th consecutive season by the Pilgrimage Players whose audience in turn could dimly hear the Bowl concert. Most conspicuously attentive of the Bowl audience was Actress Ann Harding who from her seat up front never took her eyes off the lank, gloomy-looking young man who conducted all five scores from memory. When, at the end of Scenes Historiques, the audience called Janssen back nine times, she looked as pleased as he. Since the two were married in a London registrar...
Last week the following were news: ¶ The late John Davison Rockefeller was a member of the New York Stock Exchange for the last 54 years of his long life. Only once did he enter the building, when he appeared before the admissions committee. The seat entitled thrifty Mr. Rockefeller to reduced commissions. Last week it was announced that the Rockefeller seat would be transferred to Grandson Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, one of the five strapping sons of John...
Apparently there was no particular reason why the Rockefeller Stock Exchange seat went to Son Laurance except that he seems to be his father's general understudy. As long as the seat was to remain in the family, it had to be transferred to one of them, and Son, Laurance was picked. Asked what Son Laurance expected to do with it, a Rockefeller associate declared: "He doesn't know himself...
...board of directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., was S, (for Samuel) Clay Williams, slow-spoken chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). A native Carolinian, Tobaccoman Williams once rendered what President Roosevelt called "devoted, impartial service" on the National Industrial Recovery Board. He fills the vacant seat of the late Banker George Fisher Baker. Some other A. T. & T. directors: U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Southern Pacific's Hale Holden, Lawyer John W. Davis, Boston's Charles Francis Adams, Banker Winthrop Aldrich...