Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...night at Wellesley is Float Night, late in May, when the four class crews race across the lake, while the girls on the banks sing. After that, the varsity crew is chosen -the greatest athletic honor at Wellesley...
...there is no man in the United States today better qualified to talk. ... It also might be stated without fear of contradiction that Mr. Barron is one of the most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning, he graciously consented to talk on anything from Wall Street to the human ear-the latter being one of his absorbing interests at present...
Charles R. Flint (Flint & Co., Manhattan), newly-married merger impresario, sent inspectors to 206 southern yarn mills. On the basis of inspectors' reports, he made overtures to 140 chosen mills, whose owners, announced Flint & Co. last week, offered "close cooperation, feeling that the plan was sound and for the good of the industry." When, as, and if the Flint merger is effected, he will borrow from the public some $50,000,000, for additional working capital, and will set operating as one industrial unit some 1,500,000 spindles. Yarn will be furnished more cheaply than ever before (said...
After the game the men chosen for the trip southward will leave for the University of Virginia, whom they will meet on April 9 and 10. On April 11, and the next two days, the Harvard team will face teams from the University of Richmond, the Quantico Marines and Georgetown University. The nine will wind up its journey with a game against the cadets at West Point on April...