Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President went to the Capitol at 6:00 p. m. on the day Congress closed. He waited in the President's room, attended by the entire Cabinet except Messrs. Hoover and Davis, ready to consider and sign any last-minute bills that were passed. The Senate chose to filibuster and his visit was largely in vain, although he signed 77 bills. Promptly at 7:00 p. m., the he of closing, maintaining a profound silence, he hastened away to his waiting automobile...
...Indiana Convention acceded nominally to Mr. Ralston's request. It chose an uninstructed delegation to go to the convention. But Taggart will head it and it will go to Manhattan with Ralston in its heart...
...Coolidge chose for his nominator Marion LeRoy Burton, President of the University of Michigan, an old friend. From 1910 to 1917, Dr. Burton was President of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Dr. Burton is not a delegate to the Convention. He will be furnished with a proxy in order to make the speech...
William G. McAdoo chose for his nominator former Senator James D. Phelan of California. The significance of the choice was interpreted as: 1) a bid for wet support, since Mr. Phelan, when in Congress, was an advocate of light wines and beers; 2) a bid for anti-Ku Klux Klan support, since Mr. Phelan is a Catholic...
...President had intimated strongly that no bill except the Mellon plan would be acceptable to him. But with a different bill in his hands and the end of the Congressional session approaching he was forced to choose: the present tax law or the Congressional bill. Which was better? He chose to sign...