Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sous la Manche, originally chartered in 1875, met in bustling session. Since new blood was obviously needed after half a century of stagnation, the Comite called in and elected as their president kinetic M. Yves Le Trocquer, recently French Minister of Public Works (1920-25). As Vice President they chose M. Jules Cambon, distinguished statesman and brother of beloved Paul Cambon (1843-1524) who was for 22 years French Ambassador to His Britannic Majesty. When the Committee adjourned to banquet, Jules Cambon, raised a sparkling glass and cried: "On the day the tunnel is completed England and France will have...
Editor High has hinted what the scroll will say. "It is not only because of Bishop Cannon's leadership but also because of the unselfishness of his leadership that the Christian Herald chose him for this honor. The wet interests reviled him. The wet press made him the brunt of its caricatures. But he never flinched...
...Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, famed New York City alderwoman, who is listed in the Social Register, will enter the U. S. Congress as Representative on March 4. To succeed her as alderman the Republican District Committee chose last week another Social Registerite. He is Joseph Clark Baldwin III., Manhattan banker, graduate of St. Paul's School and Harvard...
Many a wife is a compliment, no complement to her husband. Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan is both to her Francis Patrick Garvan. She, daughter of the late very wealthy Anthony N. Brady, sister of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their...
Before William Crapo Durant resigned from active management of Durant Motors (TIME, Jan. 21), he chose a group of new executives, heavily interested in Durant stock, to succeed him, and last week turned over the management to them. In his choice of heirs he showed a marked predilection for executives who had trained under the brothers John F. & Horace E. Dodge. They are: for president, Frederick J. Haynes, onetime president of Dodge Bros.; for vice president in charge of production and engineering, Ralph A. Vail, onetime engineer in charge of Dodge production; for secretary-treasurer, John A. Nichols, onetime vice...