Word: seated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gesture amounted to any general change of heart on labor's part. All along the firing line labor kept sniping at the bill's provision prohibiting political action in dues-supported union papers. In Baltimore last month, the C.I.O. backed a winning candidate for a vacant congressional seat and thus invited a court test of the political-activity clauses of the law. But Attorney General Tom Clark did nothing. Last week, in Pennsylvania, C.I.O. tried again...
Vachel Lindsay was writing about his home town. For him, Springfield was more than the prosy, prosperous seat of Illinois' State Fair; he saw it as a cultural capital of the future, where art would some day vie with corn, hogs and cattle for attention. The hopeful poet, who died in 1931, might well have been pleased by this year's state fair. Last week, for the first time in Illinois history, fine art was among the exhibits...
...divining rod, walk backward through a dark alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...
...adorned with small flags of Missouri and the U.S., the Senators kidded Harry Truman about his not being able to join them when they returned to the chamber for the afternoon's debates. Les Biffle suggested: Why didn't the President walk in and take his old seat? Harry Truman thought it was a fine idea...
...rule that only Senators may speak to the Senate was set aside. President pro tem Arthur Vandenberg recognized "the ex-Senator from Missouri for five minutes." Said Harry Truman: "I sometimes get homesick for this seat. I spent what I think were the best ten years of my life in the Senate." It was a pleasant...