Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Originally there was a rider, solemnly "congratulating" President Coolidge for deciding not to run again. To the delight of all, this roused Ohio's fussy Fess to accuse Senator LaFollette of an ulterior motive. President Coolidge had not decided not to run, explained Senator Fess: he had merely chosen; he was still available ; Senator Fess knew better than other Senators, etc., etc. Idaho's bold Borah and several others were for retaining the rider because they interpreted "I do not choose" and subsequent statements to be the utterances of an honest man and not a foxy phrasemaker. Senator...
...Trial. Governor Jackson opened the trial last week with a plea of not guilty. Then followed the troublesome task of selecting the jurors. Prosecutor Remy wanted to make sure no Klansman was chosen. The defense objected to barbers, because barbers have a grievance against Governor Jackson for pocket vetoing a barbers' license bill. Specimen testimonies of rejected jurors...
...operators offered $6 per day. The miners scorned it. The operators suggested a non-partisan arbitrator, to be appointed by Chief Justice Taft. "No!" cried a miner. "Not even if President Coolidge were chosen." The miners suggested a joint commission of miners and operators. To that the operators said, "Never again...
...Senator Johnson chosen, he could have quoted Writer Hurst much further with potent effect. She, outstanding "throb" artist in U. S. fiction, at last had a subject which even her clotted vocabulary did not seem to burlesque. Other Hurstian patches on the strike were...
...born. Intelligent, well-to-do Mother Burnham had wanted a baby. These facts she admitted freely (TIME, Jan. 30). Newspapers empurpled columns with the history, speculated as to papa, collected opinions from bigwigs and gumchewers. To deepen the secret of her collaborator's identity, who had been chosen because he "had the proper eugenic background," Mother Burnham refused to pose her progeny for photographers. Picture papers pined...