Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summarize the above matters we must come to the conclusion that the C. I. E. chose a restricted practical activity in order to promote good will and understanding among the younger generation. Let me close in showing you briefly the real importance of this movement...
Monday. At Geneva, the Assembly of The League of Nations met beneath the glare of "movie arc lights," and chose Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, to chairman a committee created to pass upon Germany's "credentials" and report (perfunctorily, of course) upon the eligibility of Germany to enter the League...
...lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus it may be said that he was a president-maker...
...whom H. J. Friendly 2L, the Lewly elected president, chose as his assistants were Charles Sprague Epstein 2L, a graduate of the City College of New York of the class of '24, who has been made Note editor; Joseph Swan Platt 2L, Yale '24 who will take charge of the Book Review Department, and Frederick August Otto Schwarz 2L., a Harvard graduate of the class of '24, who will edit the Case department. Epstein is well qualified to edit the Notes as he received the second highest grade of the first year Law School class last year. Platt also ranked...
Coach Harry Cowles will not have a great deal of experienced material from which to chose next season's squash team but he has a wealth of Freshman material coming up. Captain Debevoise's younger brother bids fair to rival the figure that his older brother has been cutting in squash circles for the past three years...