Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schoolteachers were glum, but some other persons cheered, when President Coolidge chose not to proclaim an American Education Week this year. In 1923, 1924, 1925 he proclaimed this "Week" but not last year, when U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert advised it was unnecessary. The President's secretary, Everett Sanders, explained this year to President Cornelia S. Adair of the National Education Association: "The President has expressed himself fully as to his convictions on the value of education and holds that to rephrase such sentiments tends rather to weaken them...
Three years ago, in Argyle, Ill., Pastor Edgar Smith organized a picnic. At the picnic, he chose 31 of the 40 people who live in Argyle to sing in his choir. At first their anthems were jerky. Then they improved. They were asked to give concerts in the towns and villages near Argyle...
Detroit went to its primary polls to nominate two men to run for mayor. No parties took part. No issues were raised. And the man Detroit chose by a margin of 30,000 votes as leading nominee had made no campaign, posted no posters, mailed no cards, spoken no speeches. When this leading nominee heard the returns he said: "The vote of the people is a tribute for which I am deeply grateful. ... I believe that the people of Detroit know there is not an intolerant bone in my body...
When President Coolidge "chose," he startled his secretary and his doorman. He startled Main Street, Rapid City, and Wall Street, Manhattan. It is not unthinkable that he even startled himself, but certainly he startled no one more than his political impresario, William Morgan Butler, Chairman of the National Republican Committee, who, just when the laconic lightning struck, was on a jotting jaunt in the Northwest, a tour of inspection to see what properties would be necessary for the Prosperities of 1928, starring Calvin Coolidge...
...Goodrich Co.'s President Bertram G. Work died in Europe the first week of September, after 20 even years of leadership. Last week the directors chose his successor-Harry Hough, who has been with the company but a few years. Mr. Work's great contribution to the company affairs was in finance. New President Hough was long a banker in Akron, Ohio, factory site of Goodrich;* then he became Goodrich's comptroller...