Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerably next year. Formerly there were 35 members, but be- cause such a large number made the body unwieldly, it was decoded to change the membership to, 15, of whom ten are to be Seniors and five Juniors. Next year, those who have been elected by popular vote will chose the five other members, three from the class of 1925, and two from the class...
Tammany was without a chieftain. Charles F. Murphy was dead. Tammany was looking for a new Prince. Tammany chose James A. Foley. Foley was a son-in-law of Murphy- had married the Tammany boss's adopted daughter. He had been in both Houses of the State Legislature of New York. He had a good job on the bench as Surrogate. He was not anxious to succeed his father-in-law. Mr. Foley was not anxious to be boss of Tammany, but his wife, who had been the daughter of a Tammany boss, was determined not to be wife...
...will select a Senator. David Ignatius Walsh, Democrat, is the present occupant of that post. He will stand for reelection. Meanwhile the Republicans are planning to oppose him. One of the aspirants for the Republican nomination was William M. Butler. But he withdrew two weeks ago when President Coolidge chose him to head the Republican campaign next Fall. In withdrawing, Mr. Butler expressed the hope that Governor Channing Cox of Massachusetts would be the Republican nominee. Last week Mr. Cox announced that he planned to retire, would...
...chose Liberty for a name because it is the first word in American consciousness. It was first made to mean something here in America. . . It had been a dream despaired of elsewhere. Here it was realized...
...Messrs. Patterson and McCormick, having driven out all comers except Hearst and a small business daily from the morning newspaper field in Chicago, looked ahead for new fields to conquer. They chose Manhattan and there five years ago founded a little illustrated sheet, of scandalmongering propensities, the Daily News. The gum-chewers of Manhattan seized the News and gloated. Pennies by the carload rolled into the proprietors' pockets. And yet they felt the urge for "More! More...