Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom...
...Brooklyn, one Abraham Lieberman obtained permission from a Supreme Court Justice to change his name to Benjamin Harris-a name which he chose because he had observed that in Who's Who that there were 63 persons named Harris, only one named Lieberman. He was confounded when informed that, in the directory of his city, there were 35 persons named Benjamin Harris, 33 named Abraham Lieberman...
...Wisconsin politics. In 1905, he resigned to become U. S. Senator. In 1908, he had 25 votes for the nomination for President in the Republican Convention. In 1912, he might well have run independently for President if his rival, Roosevelt, had not done so. That being the case, he chose to stay in the "regular" organization as an irregular. In 1917, he voted against the War, and was temporarily ostracized. He started the investigation which led to the oil lease scandals. In 1924, calling dissatisfied farmers, radicals and socialists to his banner, he ran independently for President. He got over...
...Cleveland, the Advising Board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met and chose a successor to Warren S. Stone, their President (TIME, June...
...over the Polar ice from the nearest hope of rescue, without dogs, too far north for animal food. They must choose between walking and striving to lift a 6-ton plane onto the ice and clearing a take-off over corrugated ice which might split at any moment. They chose the latter...