Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...callers was Indiana's smooth, handsome, ambitious Governor Paul Vories McNutt. The reason for Governor McNutt's call puzzled no one. One of the ablest politicians of the Midwest, soon to be out of a job because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process of ousting Hoover Republicans as they were in 1932. Moreover, Franklin Roosevelt has committed himself...
...Last July, Manhattan Lawyer Philip Davis boarded a New York Central train at Albany with a ticket for New York. Along with a score of others, he could find no seat in the day coaches, though there were plenty available in the Pullmans. When the conductor came along, Lawyer Davis at first refused to hand over his ticket unless given a seat. He surrendered when the conductor threatened to throw him off. All the way to Manhattan, for nearly three hours. Lawyer Davis stood in the aisle. Then, furious, "leg-sore" and worn down from the strain," he hustled...
...section of the Opera House, the coupons, coupled with the Guild's telephone reservation service, became the first painless system of obtaining opera tickets for those who could not afford to be season subscribers. In return for the $10 membership premium Mrs. Belmont offered, besides Guild service, a seat to a dress rehearsal, admission to an "at home" party. By the end of the year she was able to turn over $50,000 to the Opera box office. Last week she boasted that her Guild now numbers...
Originally declared winner by 550 votes of a New Hampshire seat in the U. S. House last month was Arthur B. Jenks, Republican. His Democratic opponent, Alphonse Roy, demanded a recount, result of which was announced last fortnight as the first Congressional tie in 110 years: 51,679-to-51,679 (TIME, Dec. 7). Last week the State Ballot Law Commission spent eleven hours examining contested ballots, declared Democrat Roy the winner by 17 votes. Prospective Republican membership in the 75th House was thus whittled from a minuscule 89 to a more minuscule...
...dream is in my mind. Afterwards to wander aimlessly . . . Shepard Hall. The sign on the door reads, "Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research; Driver Test Clinic." Some impulse moves me inside. A professor beside a machine that seems a cross between an airplane cockpit and the driver's seat of an automobile. "You have come for a test?" he asks. "I don't know," I reply. Without more encouragement he ushers me to the seat and bids me grasp the wheel. "When you see the red light, apply the brakes as fast as you can." The red light flashes...