Word: chose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nations-disappeared not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion, government weakness, weakness through lack of leadership in government. Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something...
...Dieterich but a candidate of his own choice. Result was that Mr. Dieterich regretfully decided not to run. Governor Homer's entry was an amiably conservative downstate Congressman named Scott Lucas. To oppose Mr. Lucas, Mayor Kelly and Cook County's Democratic Committee Chairman Patrick Nash chose Michael Igoe, a seasoned Irish politician whom Franklin Roosevelt had appointed U. S. District Attorney...
...Airways is its Empire Air Mail Program by which, at a three cent per half-ounce rate, all mail is carried by air to South Africa, India, Hong Kong and Australia. To carry the first batch of mail at the new rate from England to the East, Imperial Airways chose a Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this year to extending its 20,000-mile...
...included Carl Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, Vincent Sheean, some 16 other Midwesterners. Professional literary critics have no say in Friends of American Writers' selections. For its 1937 award of $1.000, the club's committee of 21 considered but passed over books by Ernest Hemingway, Dorothea Brande, Louis Bromfield, chose 30-year-old William Maxwell's They Came Like Swallows (TIME...
Dean Westergaard chose not to reply to the question. "Why is the Bureau going to Yale?", as did Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau. The latter, however, declared that "there just seem to be more pluses at Yale all the way round...