Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet). Next, Roy Archibald Young of Minneapolis was designated a member of the Federal Reserve Board, to succeed Daniel Richard Crissinger (resigned) as governor of the Board as soon as confirmed in membership. To fill vacancies on the Anglo-American and Franco-American commissions.š the President chose Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin and Underwood of Alabama, respectively, to succeed the late Senator Gray of Delaware and the late one-time (1895-97) Secretary of State Richard Olney. ¶ "For a number of years it has been our custom as a nation to observe as National Fire Prevention Week, the week...
...American Legion Monthly; advocated Nov. 11 as a national holiday, "Armistice Day;" sent a cable of cheer to legionary James Joseph Tunney in Chicago; endorsed the Boy Scouts; bestowed the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal on Count De Jean of the French Foreign Office for his reception arrangements; chose San Antonio, Tex., for the 1928 convention...
When in 1925, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and his brother Kermit accepted the offer of the Field Museum of Chicago to go into Chinese. Turkestan and the Tian Shian Mountains through India and across the Himalayas, they chose the naturalist as a member of the expedition...
Perhaps I am a back-number and do not know the extent of what you call "the tyranny of so-called efficiency." I am merely basing my present opinions on what the Associated Press chose to quote from your editorial. But this I do know--my own college career was made possible by the Employment Bureau: I needed money and was willing to work. I was asked intimate questions by the Bureau, and I did not have too much pride to answer them. Had the Bureau shown the "indifference" you recommend, my college days might have ended prematurely...
...furor walked Mrs. Coolidge. One lady, Mrs. M. W. Pangburn, immediately fainted, because, as she explained later, "the prospect of meeting the wife of a President" had caused her to lose consciousness. This was the first Black Hills social function that Mrs. Coolidge had attended. That she chose to make her debut at a meeting of the Fortnightly Club was due, not to her favoritism, but to the fact that the members of this club had been the first courageous enough to invite her. ¶On the 21st birthday of John Coolidge, the President stayed away from the Executive Office...