Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Lenroot sat down and the convention chose Roy P. Wilcox, one- time state Senator, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1918 and 1920, and now President of the State Bar Association, to run in the primaries as the candidate of the regular Republicans for Senate...
Naturally Congressmen and Senators were aroused at the prospect of loss of patronage. The ineluctable hand of politics last week reached into the Treasury Department and seized a concession. It was officially announced that Senators would have the opportunity of consulting with General Andrews before he chose his men, and that if any Senator objected to the appointment of a man in his district, his veto should be absolute...
...mind, but I can't answer it. That's my secret and it will die with me. Suffice it for the world that the point was reached where my husband was brought to the belief that he had to choose between his partner and his future. He chose...
many schools of the Theatre tried a new twist with this one. They hired a few professional actors and filled the other parts with pupils, thus giving the latter the privilege of appearing, as advertised, in a Broadway production. For this purpose they chose a poetical prize play on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. A goodly portion of the audience the opening night were parents of those concerned. It is likely that succeeding audiences, if any. will be similarly composed...
...when Bismarck's iron mastiffs were seeking quiet kennels wherein to rest after their leap on France, Richard Wagner looked for a place to make a home for his old age. He chose Bayreuth-a village three hours by train from Nürnberg, visited by few tourists. With the help of Ludwig, King of Bavaria, he built his theatre-an enormous mousetrap to which the world soon began to beat a path. Nearby, he built his house...