Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he heard the Mayor rip into "that old son-of-a-gun," Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Last week the same youngster, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts, had just polled 100,000 more votes than Democrat Curley to win the Republican nomination for the same Senate seat...
...weeks New Hampshire's Governor and ex-Senator campaigned for the Republican nomination to the seat from which 73-year-old Senator Henry Keyes announced he would retire. Henry Bridges, a handsome man of 39, an agricultural expert who got into politics because he happened to be a friend of ex-Governor Robert Bass, never ran for office until he was elected Governor two years ago. A good speaker, he traveled and talked often during the primary campaign. Only obvious flaw in his political make-up was that he dressed exceedingly well, wore a different suit each day with...
...childish wrath which delighted his over-growing circle of enemies. At President Roosevelt's train the "Kingfish" accused Mr. Angell of talking teachers' oaths while Rome burned down. And Rome is burning. It is the Rome of Mr. Curley's authority over this Commonwealth. A year ago, when his seat of power was secure, one cannot imagine the self-confident governor injured by a professor's dart. Here is another shriek of retreat to show that Mr. Curley knows what November third has in store...
...polls last week went some 300,000 Georgians to settle the bitterest Democratic primary in a generation. Seeking renomination on a red-hot New Deal platform was 38-year-old Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. Seeking the Russell seat in the Senate on a platform of New Deal abuse was Governor Eugene Talmadge (TIME, Sept 7). Bawled Senator Russell night before the primary: "Election of Talmadge would be a slap in the face of the President...
...translators" whereby foreign delegates who did not understand English could, by picking up earphones, hear translations in French, German or Spanish. And finally for the grand banquet Washington's Union Station was hired and its vast waiting room-the only available place in the capital large enough to seat 3,000 guests-converted into a dining room and rechristened the Hall of Transportation...