Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge let it be known last week that Custer Park, S. D., had been chosen for his summer vacation. At once observers began to drape his choice with political significances. They pointed out that the decision had followed visits from Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, self styled "Roosevelt Republican" and no intimate of the Old Guard...
...ready to jeer in 1900 when Admiral Dewey responded to pressure and naively announced that he was willing to run for President. Said he: "Since studying this subject, I am convinced that the office of the President is not such a very difficult one to fill. . . . Should I be chosen for this exalted position, I would execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have always executed the orders of my superiors. . . . I think I have said enough at this time, and possibly too much...
...combination eight will be detained with the Freshman squad because of the fact that probably three of its members will be recruited from the first year ranks. All these men will be chosen by Coaches Haines and Brown either today or tomorrow and will row together on the Charles until Thursday when they will follow the rest of the Harvard camp to New London...
Brainerd Hunt Whitbeck Jr. '29, of Bronxville, New York, was chosen yesterday to lead the Harvard tennis team next spring. He will succeed his brother J. F. W. Whitbeck '27. The new Crimson net leader has been playing number 4 on the team this spring and although he is not the equal of his brother on the court, he has displayed an excellent brand of tennis in his matches this spring...
Governor Fuller deserves praise for his latest decision in the review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, both because he has seen fit to seek unofficial advice and because of the excellence of his choice. The three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity...