Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once in 1,400 well-chosen words, addressed to the Mexican Ambassador, Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Nájera, did Secretary Hull so much as mention oil wells, gold mines or vast ranches. Experts of the State Department had supplied figures on Mexican expropriations of small farm holdings as far back as 1915. But before he mentioned even these, Secretary Hull went into a juicy preamble about the sympathy of aims existing between President Cárdenas' new deal for Mexico and President Roosevelt's New Deal for the U. S.: "The issue is not whether Mexico should...
...black and white, Catholic, Baptist or Episcopal, the New Deal has revived the Christian spirit of America. The man who today sits in the White House is a great Christian. He has chosen me as his first assistant. Now, are you going to let that man down? If there is a God in Heaven your vote will be no! . . . God bless each and every...
...over, thought each of the 125 jobhunters who last week answered advertisements for an "Honest man with moral qualifications wanted to play the part of Sir Galahad." The man in search of a Galahad was Franciscan Patrick Mc-Carthy of St. Christopher's Inn, Graymoor. N. Y. Chosen Galahad, after two hours of auditions and soul searchings, was 17-year-old Business-Schoolboy Ralph Welliver...
Among the 125 applicants, 27 survived moral examination. Schoolboy Welliver was chosen because he was the best actor of this stainless group. His specifications : 5 ft. 10 in. tall, 148 lb., blue eyes, brown hair, a Boy Scout patrol leader...
...generals seized power in Old Castile and Navarre, in the north, and in much of Andalusia, in the south. Their chosen leaders in order of authority were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first...