Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election Nov. 8. Through his onetime law partner and a nominal plaintiff, Mayor McKee went to court to void the Board's order, hold his job until Jan. 1, 1934. At stake was the question of whether the Mayor's office was legally vacant. Mayor McKee said he wanted to save the city the expense of a special election...
...back his job at the November election? First to be settled was the legal question of whether or not New York should choose another Mayor this year. The law provides that a "vacancy occurring before Oct. 15 shall be filled at the next general election." But was the mayoralty "vacant" with Mr. McKee in City Hall? Only the courts can answer...
...Lawrenceville, where he went to school, Mercer Beasley used to play tennis with Karl Behr but it did not look as if the game would turn out to be his career. Even with Notlek Amusement Corp. in Manhattan which had vacant lots for skating in winter, tennis in the summer, Beasley's job as assistant manager had nothing to do with instruction. He took it upon himself to improve the calibre of Notlek tennis, was rewarded by an offer to become tennis coach at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Ill. Said William Tatem Tilden II, when they...
...fanatic vortexed in Paris last week around Dr. Paul Gorgulov who was caught red-handed assassinating the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16). The strange proceedings so fascinated a group of young French lawyers that they stealthily occupied the press box one day when it was vacant, tried to hold it against the furious assaults of newshawks, had to be ousted by the police...
...last week Dom Manoel de Braganza, onetime King of Portugal, sat at Wimbledon watching the tennis tournament, chatting with his good friends King George of England and onetime King Alfonso of Spain. On the day that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel...