Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a two-thirds quorum already chosen, the Board was ready to organize. Its first duty was to get itself squared away in Washington. Looking for possible office space, inspectors went through the old Southern R. R. building, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street, lately acquired by the U. S. Secretaries, assistants, experts, clerks-the large personnel of bureaucracy -had to be hired, set to work...
Elected. Herbert Farrington Perkins, first vice president of International Harvester Co.; to be president, succeeding Alexander Legge, new-chosen chairman of the Federal Farm Board...
...name chosen was World's Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...
...Wittenberg, such a seat would be historically most fitting. But in Scandinavia more than in Germany has Lutheranism flowered. The Archbishop could not help but think and hope thai Upsala, his home and the seat of Sweden's archbishopric, might some day be chosen as capital of Lutheranism. There, where once stood a glittering heathen temple, now stands as fine a Lutheran Cathedral as there is in the world, just west of where students in white velvet caps bordered in black stroll through the halls of the Oxford, the Heidelberg, the Sorbonne of Scandinavia, Upsala University...
Mother Mary Magdalene's sainthood-candidacy is supported by the Very Rev. Albert Kleber of St. Meinrad's, Ind. Chosen as "devil's advocate," whose duty it is to find flaws in all arguments in her favor, was the Rev. Peter C. Gannon, editor of The True Voice, Catholic weekly...