Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's definition, the nation's choice is between men with social conscience and men without. Maryland has a choice at next week's Democratic primary between Senator Millard E. Tydings, 48, and Representative David John Lewis, 69, for the former's Senate seat...
...Llewellyn Park. N. J.. Mrs. John Eyre Sloane, daughter (Madeleine) of the late great Thomas Alva Edison, sister of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, announced herself a Republican candidate for nomination to a seat in Congress...
...Franklin Roosevelt tried to sound hearty about the withdrawal last week, three days before the vote, of State Senator Edgar Brown from the primary race for U. S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith's seat from South Carolina. Mr. Roosevelt said it "clarified the issue" and he urged the voters to swing in behind Governor Olin D. Johnston, his agent to "purge" Senator Smith. Mr. Brown ruined the effect of this appeal by blasting Candidate Johnston as an insolent Huey Longster...
Henry George Stebbins died in 1881, and his grandson, Henry George Stebbins Noble, took over his seat. He in turn was elected to the presidency, was at the tiller in 1914 when the torpedoed Exchange went into drydock for four and one-half months. Last week, at 79, he was the Exchange's oldest member in point of seniority (56 years), had been on its governing committee longer than any other man (37 years), was one of its few authors (The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 and The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble...
Last week, Henry George Stebbins Noble applied to the committee on admissions to have his seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...