Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Jackson's trial next month are the following allegations: 1) That, in 1923, Ed Jackson, then secretary of state, approached Warren T. McCray, then Indiana's governor, with the proposition that one James E. McDonald be appointed prosecuting attorney of Marion County. This office was vacant because Mr. McCray had just been indicted in the criminal courts for a financial felony, and Prose- cuting Attorney Williams P. Evans had resigned, being Mr. McCray's son-in-law. 2) That Ed Jackson offered the indicted Governor $10,000 cash and a guarantee that he would...
...decide to swear it in such ignoble fashion now?" A sufficient answer is that early last week the Free State Government headed by President William Thomas Cosgrave jammed through Parliament the Public Safety Bill under which the seats of deputies who do not take the oath may be declared vacant and a by-election ordered to fill them?no candidate being allowed to run unless he pledges himself to take the oath if elected...
...adenoidal person is easily recognized. His mouth is usually open, because the adenoids hinder nose breathing, his facial expression is vacant, his breathing noisy, his hearing more or less impaired. He usually has a hacking cough, a peculiar muffling of the voice, and enlarged tonsils. Because inhaled air is not filtered through the nose, germs enter the throat, the lungs. Tuberculosis is a frequent result...
...ousting him from his position. The order was the result of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision last winter that Judge Lindsey's election in 1924 had been illegal. As Judge Lindsey's opponent, Royal R. Graham, had died since the election, the office was declared vacant and the County Commissioners appointed to it Attorney Robert W. Steele. It was under this man's father, then (1899) Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court that Judge Lindsey first began his work in Denver. Said Judge Lindsey: "The ouster writ is the temporary triumph of bigotry...
When wealthy city people move to the country for the summer, their homes, though usually closed, do not remain untenanted. The furniture may be clothed in white muslin dust suits; only the window-buzzing of imprisoned flies may break the silence of the shaded rooms; but in the vacant dwellings a host of people and personages continue their existence without regard to season-smiling the same smiles, making the same gestures, staring perennially in fixed directions...