Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance Minister the "new" Premier straightway chose himself, and ingeniously created the office of "Budget Minister," into which he popped M. Georges Bonnet, 36-year-old Radical-Socialist Deputy. Under this plan the Premier-Finance Minister announced that he would be personally charged with funding the country's external debts, directing loans and exchange, supervising general disbursements and acting as Government liaison officer with the Banque de France. M. Bonnet, per contra, is to be responsible for national economy and the direction of taxation and the revenue service. Critics found this "divide and finance" scheme to be somewhat remindful...
...fortune. He put up his wife to run for Governor. She ran second in the first Democratic primary. In the second Democratic primary Texas had the choice between her and the man who ran first?who was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Texas, intent on repudiating the Klan, chose Mrs. Ferguson to be the Democratic nominee for Governor. In the election she beat the Republican nominee 1) because she was a Democrat, and 2) because she was anti-Klan. Last January she was inaugurated with a great ball (TIME, Feb. 2, WOMEN) and promptly gave her attention to moving...
...Washington the National Council of the Congregational Church was addressed by President Coolidge, who is its Honorary Moderator.* The President chose as his text the interrelation between religion and government. He declared that "the chief function of organized government is to maintain order, provide security for persons and property, and set up instrumentalities for the administration of justice." Then he proceeded to dwell upon the manner in which religious influence may be exerted by both the clergy and the laity in helping the government to achieve its purposes; and crystallized his conception of the vital importance of religion...
Nevertheless, there seems to be little to chose between the offensive power of the two backfields. They are very different in type but each is strong...
Meantime he chose Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois as his civil counsel and Col. H. A. White as his military counsel for the impending trial before the Army Court...