Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats having chosen Editorial Writer Claude Gernade Bowers of the New York Evening World for convention Keynoter, interest was aroused by Walter Lippmann who, as chief editorial writer of the morning World, holds forth under the same gold publishing dome as Mr. Bowers. Addressing some women Democrats in Manhattan last week, Mr. Lippmann said: "Great personalities, bold programs, big issues are a nuisance to the Republicans." He counseled Candidate Smith to discard the vague phrases urged upon him by his advisers and speak out on Prohibition. The Smith advisers promptly informed the public that the best way to oppose Prohibition...
...Lately he was chosen to fly the Chilean Ambassador to Texas and back...
When the Daughters of the American Revolution hissed and sputtered before and during their annual "congress" in Washington last fortnight, over a subject called "blacklisting," observers concluded that the cause of the trouble was a policy of the Daughters which had been chosen by their high officials without the untitled mass of the membership knowing or caring much about it. Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie of Cambridge, the Daughter who raised her voice against "blacklists," made little headway at the congress. She and her friends and their resolutions were soon silenced. The victory of President-General Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau...
Whatever the date of Dictator Primo de Rivera's wedding, Spaniards are relieved that he has chosen definitely, at last, among the too many ladies who have sought through him to sway the course of Spain. There was, for example, very recently, the Marquise de Arguelles. Perhaps it is well that her somewhat sinister influence will be supplanted by that of the Orphan & Spinster-who is one of the richest women in Spain, and accounted sage with the wisdom that comes from managing large monetary affairs...
Unfortunately, when it actually came to business of the investigation, how was the committee to be chosen? The president of the council could not be permitted to name five men for he himself might be an offender and choose the five to his own liking. The council could not lower themselves to submitting to the questions of a body of impartial citizens. Consulting the district attorney was also out of the question. Finally the fifteen members decided to examine themselves, one after another being judged by the other fourteen. Thus will the slate be wiped clean and the honor...