Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fate and Texas gave Martin Dies an impressive physique, a durable voice, a seat in Congress. Mr. Dies lately has given the U. S. a Congressional investigation. By the standards of past masters at inquisition his performance has not been brilliant. Ex-Senator (now Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was at his best with a hostile witness, knowing well how to bait the trap, when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect...
Career: If the U. S. were England, Richard Mifflin Kleberg would never have had to do any political campaigning. He would have grown up to inherit a seat in the House of Lords. For he is the elder son of Robert Justus Kleberg, who married Alice Gertrudis King, whose father, Captain Richard King, began in the 1850s to assemble what became not only the biggest ranch in the U. S. but one of the world's most impressive landholdings. Today, dominated by Klebergs, the King Ranch of 1,250,000 acres is twice as big as Rhode Island, nearly...
...place with such minor gains and losses of the various parties that neutral observers figured the uncertain French parliamentary balance had simply been maintained. Outstanding was the personal triumph of Socialist Marx Dormoy, a protégé of Léon ("New Deal") Blum, who won his Senate seat in a smashing victory this week over Rightist Marcel Regnier, a protégé of Pierre ("Hoare-Laval Deal") Laval...
...election and added: "I know that the President will be thrilled when I give him that report." Opposing Democrat Ely is able, hulking, frizz-haired William Warren Barbour, a Republican who very nearly fits the "liberal" definition of Franklin Roosevelt and who was beaten out of his Senate seat in 1936 by William H. Smathers. Until Boss Hague and Boss Roosevelt joined forces, it had looked unlikely that Democrat Ely could head off ex-Senator Barbour in his comeback. Even now, a plurality of about 100,000 votes from Hudson County will probably be required. Knowing this, Mr. Barbour last...
...this has given Harold Stassen an unparalleled chance to make hay. A more energetic campaigner than bespectacled Governor Benson, he has covered 20,000 Minnesota miles in his car, bellowing into a back seat dictaphone between speeches. He makes as many as four in one evening, always scurries to the back of the hall to pump the hand of each departing listener...