Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrary to expectation, the right of Democrat Dr. Rudolph G. Tenerowicz of Hamtramck, Mich., onetime convict (TIME, Nov. 28, et ante) to a seat was not challenged. No seat was challenged...
...electing four members to vacancies on the omnipotent Ways & Means Committee, the Democratic House Caucus voted most heavily for Representative Milton West of Texas, non-New Dealer, good friend of Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner and successor to his House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
...turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat" on the U. S. Supreme Court, succeeding his friend Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who in turn had succeeded another friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the Budge backhand finally met the Vines forehand. It was the opening match of a 70-city Budge v. Vines professional tour, and 17,000 tennis enthusiasts gladly paid up to $7.70 a seat to see it: They breathlessly watched Budge serve his first ball-his first stroke under lights, indoors, for pay. The ball landed three feet beyond the baseline...
Hurling blistering charges into the Brookline political arena, Paul Kerins '41, who turned 21 three days ago and is growing a moustache to prove it, has launched what he calls a "bitter campaign with the gloves off" for a seat on the Brookline School Committee...