Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board met last week at the White House, chose D wight W. Morrow, J. P. Morgan partner to preside over its deliberations, fixed the committee room of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce as its metting place and announce its program. "The board plans to hear first the representatives of the air services of the army, the navy and the post office, as to their present condition, organization, equipment, mission and the relation of the services to each other. The board expects thereafter to invite numerous witnesses, including Colonel Mitchell, to appear before them with criticisms and constructive...
...takes you back to his graduation from a college in Texas and forth upon the moonlit road he chose to follow into the world. Soon you meet the Chicken-Wagon Family, camped for the night by a pine-fringed Louisiana bayou, and thereafter their story and Jim Pickett...
Across the floor of the Mexican Congress, Deputy Marino Perez and Deputy Wenceslao Macib faced each other in bitter debate. They exchanged volleys of invective, but chose their words carefully out of politeness. Then Deputy Perez made a slip. He allowed the word "effeminate" to escape from his lips. The debate was immediately adjourned to an improvised prize-ring in the streets. Friends separated them...
...Louisville, northern capital of the territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, the popular and prominent League of America met to elect officers. Tingling with devout recollection of his masterful sermon on the dance, they chose Dr. John Roach Straton,* Manhattan divine, to be Chairman of the Campaign Committee. For President, they chose William Jennings Bryan, Jr., Los Angeles attorney...
...change of Administration in Bolivia. But in Bolivia the change was brought about by a revolution. A military junta seized control of the Government. A convention was called to elect a President. The Republican party headed by the junta expelled its opponents from the convention and chose its own leader Juan Bautista Saavedra President ? really dictator. He promptly exiled his opponents from the country. Early last spring he decided it was safe to risk an election. In order to make the election as safe as possible the Republican party nominated for President Dr. Jose Gabino Villanueva...