Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader, William Aberhart, whose ancestors were German, followed the tactic of Adolf Hitler in not standing for election to a legislative seat but devoting all his energies to boosting the Social Credit Party into power. This accomplished, plain Mr. Aberhart accepted from one of his Party henchmen last week the seat he had to have before he could be named Premier...
...outgoing United Farmers Cabinet of Premier Reid had been so utterly routed that their party failed to win a single seat, but these rustic Radicals departed with the satisfaction of knowing that they had presented Premier Aberhart, whom they consider still more radical, with a virtually bankrupt provincial treasury and a run on the provincial savings banks which had been ordered last week to pay nothing for the present to depositors...
...Promoters have at least been shrewd enough to profit from it. George Sisler, longtime first baseman for the St. Louis Browns, who now has a St. Louis sporting goods store, is head of the American Association, owns two softball parks in St. Louis, controls three others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip Rosier. Next year, Promoter Rosier plans...
...conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...
Last week, without any fanfare whatsoever, Gretchen Schoenleber became the first woman member of any U. S. exchange when she bought a seat on the New York Cocoa Exchange for $2,700. She announced that she would not leave Milwaukee to do her trading in Manhattan although the Exchange requires all trading to be done by members in person. Instead she will take advantage of Exchange rules which permit a member's agent to buy cocoa beans through a floor broker at a saving of 50% of commission. Said Cocoa Trader Schoenleber: "Every leading chocolate company has a seat...