Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than ever as a champion who, having done his best for peace, must now do his best for the Democracies; or against him more strongly than ever as an international meddler who having futilely exposed the dignity and good faith of the U. S., must now take a back seat, let the U. S. retire into its shell...
...choosing Ed Noble, Mr. Hopkins pained two ambitious Assistant Secretaries. But the change brought promotions to two of Ed Noble's former CAA associates. Up to the vacated chairmanship moved Robert Hinckley of Utah, 48. Into the Hinckley seat moved Edward Pearson Warner, a professor of aeronautics at M. I. T., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, lately a technical adviser to Ed Noble...
...Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week returned to the U. S. Supreme Court. For his first chore he had the pleasant duty of swearing in the Court's newest and youngest member, ex-SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas, 40. As Franklin Roosevelt's fourth appointee took his seat at the extreme left, he rubbed his nose, smiled at his wife and nine-year-old son, Bill Jr. Deprived while on the bench of his usual cigaret, Justice Douglas nervously twiddled a red rubber band as Justice Roberts read two momentous decisions...
Minneapolitans grew proud and fond of their Maestro Mitropoulos, bought out every last seat of their huge Northrop Auditorium (capacity 4,800). The men in the orchestra followed their leader with a devotion bordering on worship. Visitors discovered that some of the most brilliant and spectacular U. S. conducting since the peak days of Stokowski and Toscanini was being done in snow-crusted Minneapolis. This year, with Mitropoulos' fame spreading to bigger cities, Minneapolis tied him securely with a three-year contract...
...large returning group should mean a great deal. It seems fairly conclusive however, that the light weights will not venture upon foreign waters this year. The boating: Bailey, stroke; Turner, seven; Pierce, six; Gifford, five; Hazard, four; Crocker, three; Koeniger, two; Gilkey, bow; and Larner in the cox's seat...