Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomats set out for Geneva last week from the capitals of most nations. The annual September meeting of the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations loomed, but, since several issues not directly bound up with the formal League procedure are pending, many of the diplomats chose to seek Geneva well in advance...
...were willing to break party lines for once, some 300 Deputies, headed by Deputy Morinaud of Constantine, Algeria-a political nobody-signed a petition requesting that the President designate some outstanding statesman to form a Cabinet in which all parties would unite to save the franc. Naturally, M. Doumergue chose the potent War-President of France, the representative of French "Big Business," M. Raymond Poincaré. Soon Poincaré "presented" to M. le President a Cabinet which would be unthinkable in any other country, a Cabinet in which statesmen notoriously one another's mortal enemies agreed to unite: Raymond...
...prying reached to Hillyer Hawthorne Straton's private creed and personal practices, a Negro among the inquisitors asked him what he thought of "sanctification," and it almost seemed as though the glib answers suddenly betrayed shallowness as the youth hesitated and then chose to answer a different question shot simultaneously by some one else. Ah no, thought the stern elders, you cannot be too sure of youth's probity nowadays. And this boy had been pressed resolutely to the Lord's work by his father. He might be, at heart, no voluntary gospel-man, though...
...even this gesture was forgotten in the flurry of electing directors. The 80 present chose 54 of their own number to direct. Of the 54 only one, C. R. Miller (C. R. Miller Mfg. Co.) was from Texas, the largest cotton-producing state in the country. He is from Dallas. Otherwise the industrialized southern states are represented in comfortable proportion to those of the North Atlantic. No one section gives the appearance of dominance...
...party, including Mr. Coolidge, native guides, Secret Service men, caught 32 speckled trout in one afternoon. Ten of these (among which was the largest) chose the President's hook...