Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln C. Andrews' new Prohibition enforcement officers have come in for criticism from many quarters for the assistants they have chosen and ousted. But W. F. Rhinow, new chief in the Minnesota district, made an appointment last week that surely is not open to criticism. He chose, as his official legal adviser, Mr. Andrew J. Volstead, onetime (1903-23) Congressman from Minnesota. Said Mr. Rhinow:"I am highly pleased to obtain the services of Mr. Volstead. He is the highest authority on the law in the country and he undoubtedly will be of great value to enforcement...
...their field of concentration; with the others--the average students or worse--he makes a gallant effort and then gives it up. These last have chosen their special subject not because they were interested in it in any particular sense; they had to choose something, poor fellows, and they chose the subject which sounded nice or easy or looked vaguely attractive on the program. To be sure, the tutor continues meeting them at stated intervals, but he is apt to make the duration of the conferences rather short and the interval between them rather long, while, conversely, to the abler...
Every year the supporters of the Gallery are rewarded for their in vestment with a free lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name was Charles Clifton, President of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, who chose Heavy Weather, a marine painting by Irving Wiles. The third, James Parmelee of Washington, acquired Lilian Hale's Spring Reverie...
...fourth name drawn was Otto Kahn; he chose a portrait to be painted by John Johansen...
...First Vice President they chose Melvin A. Traylor, President of the First Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. As Second Vice President, Thomas R. Preston, President of the Hamilton Trust & Savings Bank of Spring City, Tenn., will reap the reward of having worked without pay to learn the banking business, some 35 years...