Word: seatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hialeah Park, Widener Day had its troubles too. The ballyhooed duel between Samuel Riddle's War Admiral and Maxwell (no relation) Howard's Stagehand fizzled when the pampered Riddle colt developed a slight fever three days before the race-when every seat in the Park had been sold. But Florida turf fans did not lose interest either...
Nothing was more insufferable to Vag than the Sunday train ride back to Boston. He squinted through the frosted window, sighed dismally, and then the impossible happened. A pretty girl, a college girl, undoubtedly from Wellesley, took the vacant seat next to him. It happened just as Vag had always seen in the movies. He knew exactly what to do, for the scene had been rehearsed in his mind a thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there...
Minority Leader McNary shook hands with Freshman Taft when he sat down. Michigan's Vandenberg, doubtless recognizing no forensic threat in this serious son of the 27th President, leaned over grinning amiably from his nearby seat. Afterwards Ohio's Taft said: "It was just like making a speech any place else, except that the acoustics are terrible. I have a pretty good voice but I felt I had to shout to make people hear me." Presently he was chosen to read Washington's Farewell Address, shouted very nicely...
...Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed on his own hook distinguished District Judge Robert P. Patterson, a Republican...
...Jessup was recently elected to a unique position, given a seat on Johns-Manville Corp.'s board of directors to represent the public...