Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season book sells for $13.20 and includes a set of reserved seat tickets for Amherst, Brown, West Point, Dartmouth, Princeton, Virginia and Navy games...
...chuffed into Des Moines' Rock Island railroad station. Cavalry bugles blared and police sirens shrieked as the Presidential procession moved off on a circuitous and well-advertised route which took it along all the city's principal streets on its way to the Capitol. From the back seat of an open car, President Roosevelt smiled and waved his Panama hat at the cheering crowds, well sprinkled with Landon sunflower buttons, which lined the curbs...
...gathered outside, singling out for special greeting a small boy in a cowboy suit. At a tourist camp on Des Moines' outskirts the caravan picked up six more carloads of newshawks and greeters, plus a motor-cycle police escort. Even though he kept in the back seat of his closed car, citizens along Des Moines streets knew that Alf Landon had arrived. The Republican nominee answered their cheers with smiles and waves of his sailor straw...
Last week Michael Francis Tighe, 78, resigned after 17 years as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
...miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...