Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ousted the Speaker from it. "Tsar" Cannon objected, was overruled. The House was in a turmoil; hostile Congressmen rushed at the Speaker's rostrum as if to tear him bodily from his throne. His gavel smote his desk; he said that his seat could better be declared vacant by a majority vote. A vote was taken. He kept his throne until 1911; but gradually the old rules were replaced; "Tsar" Cannon was replaced by "Uncle Joe" Cannon of the big black cigar and thumping quid...
With two Middle-western teams already scheduled in Purdue and Indians, it was felt that a large Eastern institution would most acceptably fill the vacant place on the University's list of gridiron engagements for next fall. The Pennsylvania battle rounds out one of the most difficult schedules ever under-taken by a Harvard team. Vermont, one of the stronger of the small college elevens, will open the schedule in the Stadium, to be followed in order by Purdue, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Brown and Yale...
...Alfred Hertz had announced; he demanded a guarantee fund of $25,000 to see it through. Came the Sunday concert, and radio fans, thousands of them, stopped their Sunday putterings to listen in, voted the experiment a success. Managers scouting around the darkened Curran Theatre, saw great patches of vacant seats, thought differently, gave thanks to the few loyal subscribers and the Standard Oil Co., who had furnished the guarantee...
Smith Wildman Brookhart of lowa, snorting insurgent whom regular Republicans docilely indorse, is opposed by Claude R. Porter, Democrat, able lawyer. (Young David W. Stewart, Republican, onetime marine, has a clear path to election to the seat in the 69th Congress left vacant by Senator Cummins' death...
Three months ago, five bullets whizzed from a thicket in a vacant lot in Canton, Ohio. One of them entered the vigorous brain of Editor Don R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News, as he was putting away his car for the night (TIME, July 26 et seq.). An employe of Newspaper-owner James M. Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio, Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing...