Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Depression" was the headline jubilantly chosen last week by New York's tory Herald Tribune to run over one of its own stockmarket graphs (see cut), accompanied by a letter from a reader...
Last month in the French L'Illustration three French Army doctors declared that in case of war, germs could be introduced into enemy territory by loosing infected rats, fleas and lice. Having chosen the harmful war germ, the army employing it would immunize its own men in advance...
Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selects a few Americans considered likely to add to the "scholarly and artistic power" of the U. S., pays their living expenses so they may work at what pleases them. This week the Foundation granted $135,000 to 58 men & women chosen from 1,000 applicants. Some of the 1938 Guggenheim fellows...
When they drew up the Constitution, the Founding Fathers carefully designated the various government offices. But they neglected to say how men were to be chosen for them. Madison believed that many political parties would spring up, that safety for the Republic would lie in their cancellations and compromises. Instead, the two-party system became more strongly entrenched in the U. S. than anywhere else. From James Bryce to Charles A. Beard historians have puzzled over this phenomenon, asking almost as many questions as they have answered. How did it happen, for example, that the parties...
Married. David Whitmire Hearst, 22. youngest (with his twin Randolph) son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; to Hope Chandler, 17, former Manhattan show girl, who last year was chosen the "prettiest girl in Paradise" (Manhattan night club); in Manhattan...