Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposing candidates for the nomination had anticipated the "ungraceful act" by promising to support whatever ticket was chosen. Josephus Daniels, Governor Dan Moody of Texas, Governor L. G. Hardman of Georgia and many another solved the problem by saying, simply: "I am a Democrat." Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind, facetious, onetime-Senator from Oklahoma who seconded Reed at Houston, frankly switched to Smith. Even bitter little Senator Simmons of North Carolina turned the other cheek, last week. It was a silent gesture. He did not promise to work actively for Smith. But he pointed to his Democratic record, held...
...crested Senator James A. Reed followed Mr. Davis with a cry for "every Democrat in the United States" to support Nominee Smith "until the last ballot is counted on election night." True, this Reed speech preceded the convention's choice of a vice president. But after Nominee Robinson was chosen, Senator Reed's congratulations contained an honest ring...
...giving Poland independence I wanted to leave Poland to her own devices. I asked myself whether I should handle the Polish Parliament as a prostitute, and tramp on it with my feet, or choose the other way of leaving it alone. Had I chosen the former method the unpleasant affair of May 1926 [Pilsudski's coup d'état] would never have occurred...
Louisville heard the roar of airplanes, the rumble of private railroad cars, and knew that Indiana's 89 realtors had arrived for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...
...Labor to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called Conscience," recommended George Washington to his successors at the close of his public career. This advice found its correlative yesterday afternoon in the text chosen for the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light...