Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold their properties, pooled $800,000 to form a superchurch which they called Temple Methodist. Their optimism the Methodists expressed by building a 27-story hotel, highest on the Pacific Coast, at Leavenworth & McAllister streets in downtown San Francisco. The William Taylor Hotel, with a cathedral-like, 1,300-seat church concealed in its second, third and fourth floors, would support Temple Church, everyone felt, retire its $1,550,000 in first mortgage bonds at maturity. But more funds were needed and before the hotel was completed in 1930 the Methodists floated a $150,000 second mortgage issue, borrowed...
...Jersey Democrats would like to break up Mayor Bradway's Republican machine and get Cape May County back into the Democratic column. Last winter Democratic Senators protested the seating of Cape May County's Senator-elect William C. Hunt on the grounds that votes had been fraudulently switched to him by Wildwood Republicans. So tense was this situation that U. S. Senator-elect William Henry Smathers remained for three months in his old seat in the State Senate, divided 11 to 10 between the parties, to help balance Senator-suspect Hunt. During the investigation, Mayor Bradway...
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...affair occurred Tuesday in Seavey's class in Criminal Law, a course Leo was regularly enrolled. On that day, however, he had not taken his customary seat and was in the back of the room. The discussion was on the privilege of newspapers commenting on men who run for public office. Someone in the class posed the question to Seavey that if the newspapers had printed all they knew about Mayor Thompson of Chicago, did not he feel that Thompson would not have been reelected...
...Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that he had no suspicion of Nightingale's condition, that the birth must have been at least a month premature. Prodded by the S.P.C.A., police handed him a summons for the year's rarest case of cruelty to animals...