Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as he arrived in Syracuse that afternoon. Syracuse's most popular politician is Republican Mayor Rolland B. Marvin. Democratic Nominee Roosevelt tickled Syracuse's pride, assured bi-partisan applause on his progress through the city's streets by bundling delighted Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made possible by an $825,000 PWA grant, smilingly observed that...
...rate discreet questionaires went out to the "carefully sifted" undergraduates yesterday requesting such anatomical data as "Where is your family's seat (or home)?" The words in parenthesis were added, it is suspected, for reasons obvious to the lay mind...
Such an epoch-making statement should not be passed over lightly. Surely this disgraceful situation cannot be known on Beacon Hill; surely if the sacred kingfish of the State House were to find out that irregularities had attended his rise to the seat of power he could not go on as the hit-and-run servant of the people. And even should he feel that he could, this new voice of the people from Dorchester would not permit it, for he has a plan--and in all fairness, it is not a bad plan...
...rage of victorious Benito Mussolini, defeated Haile Selassie won at Geneva last week the right to retain his delegation's seat in the Assembly of the League of Nations during its present session. British efforts to bar the Ethiopians, half heartedly seconded by the French, were called by veteran New York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Elliott "a bit of jugglery so contemptible that even a Tammany politician might have blushed to be connected with...
...hope this exhibition will rouse the people of this country!" Next day King Edward, with three newspapers under his arm and accompanied by the Duke of York, took a train at Euston Station for Balmoral, the Royal Scottish Seat, where he will shoot. To the astonishment of his Scottish deerstalking guide who found a fine stag for His Majesty this week, the King at the crucial moment dropped his gun, whipped out his new German miniature camera, snapped the stag...