Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the 74 had taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...came down with bags and her two dogs, Sweetpea and June. Then every-one knew she was planning to leave for good. The car roared off and stopped at Mars Turner's filling station at the edge of town. Pete Traxler was sitting in the driver's seat with two revolvers and Tindol was in back with two revolvers and a 30-30 Winchester. Just then Frank Dorris the town marshal drove by and Nell said, "There's the Law. You'd better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner...
...host of 55,000 sinners, Russians who transgressed against their State and were sent to the purgatory of digging immense canals under the lash of Ogpu overseers, last week were redeemed by the mercy of Joseph Stalin. Making one of his rare public appearances the Dictator took an inconspicuous seat while the official pardon of the 55,000 was read out. How many more thousands died in the Soviet purgatory and how many are busy redeeming themselves in it still with picks and shovels, the State did not say. Most of Russia's 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated under...
...Western eyes lacking the historic focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung to set themselves...
...group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include other composers. Eight years later the old Winter Riding School was converted into a Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. Salzburg's growing musical reputation blossomed powerfully in 1934 when Conductor Arturo Toscanini snubbed Nazi Bayreuth in favor of Salzburg. Thenceforth the Salzburg Festivals became the place for thousands of U. S. and European tourists to go, the playground for international socialites, the highest appointment singers & players could hope for. By last week the scurry and noise of thousands arriving, unpacking, celebrating, made the baroque little city look...