Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought only 35,000 common shares. The "misunderstanding" in Philadelphia revealed that the Fisher brothers had taken up more than 100,000 common shares and a smaller block of preferred. This holding clearly entitled them to representaton on the directorate though it did not constitute control. President Vauclain chose to be cryptic about the apparent fight "misunderstanding" and apparent fight for Baldwin control. "I know of no fight," he said. "I couldn't tell you anything about the matter. . . . The only thing in which I am really interested is the sale of locomotives." His friends could well picture...
Stalwart Republicans made light of these remonstrances, saw nothing unusual in forcing the national army to use the national colors, adding that permission to fly the monarchist emblem might lead to a part of the army fighting against the Republic, if they so chose...
...advance: 1) the necessity for unity, 2) the message of Christianity, 3) the nature of a united church, 4) the common faith, 5) the ministry, 6) the sacraments. After speakers had explained varying views of these essential features, the delegates attended whatever of six smaller discussion groups they chose, where points at issue were thrashed out and six committees framed six reports setting forth propositions on which all denominations might, or might not agree...
...what a shocking development it may have seemed to one man ? a man not named Calvin Coolidge. Only last June Amherst chose a new president and the Amherst Graduates' Quarterly published a series of paragraphs from which the following are excerpts...
...right. I choose 3 p. m., Sunday, July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...