Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's major political plum was the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. At week's end it remained on the branch when Major Frank Dixon fell just short of a clear majority against four other candidates. A run-off election will be held June 14. Campaigning for a seat in the House, aging J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who lost a Senate race to Lister Hill last winter, lost again, this time to the incumbent Joe Starnes of Guntersville...
...Indiana, Senatorial candidates will be nominated at State conventions June 28 (Republican) and July 11 (Democratic). At last week's primaries eleven of the State's twelve sitting Representatives were renominated. For the twelfth seat, now held by anti-Rooseveltian Samuel Pettengill, South Bend Democrats put up a moderate Rooseveltian, George Beamer...
...lunch with Prime Minister de Valera, the President-elect, nicknamed by Gaelic enthusiasts as An Craoibhin Aoibhinn ("the delightful little branch") after a line in one of his poems, went to inspect what will be his official home after he takes office on June 1. The granite viceregal lodge, seat of hated British power in old Ireland, resembling Washington's White House, situated in wooded, spacious Phoenix Park, will now be known as Arus an Uachtarian ("President's Residence...
...picked up a local reputation for political effectiveness. In 1928 he jumped the Democratic Party to work for Mr. Hoover. Mr. McNinch is against liquor (he keeps a vacuum jug of milk on his desk) and Mr. Al Smith is not. President Hoover rewarded Frank McNinch with a seat on the Federal Power Commission...
Authors Bromley & Britten introduce their book with a promising question: "Joe and Jane petting on the back seat of an automobile are unimportant. Five million boys and girls petting on public highways have national significance." Their banal conclusion: "Today's young people are groping for a philosophy of living that will serve them in a changing world. They lack the measuring-rod of experience, but as a generation they are forthright, honest and courageous." Readers will want better evidence than is provided in Youth and Sex that these adjectives are appropriate for either the generation or Authors Bromley & Britten...