Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second place in U.S. favor (TIME, March 10). Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. roasted his colleagues by inserting an editorial from the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram in the Record. Said the editorial: "It is high time an aroused public opinion again reminded the Republican Party why it was chosen at the polls last November. ... In an atmosphere of political pussyfooting, the Republicans have been eyeing...
...book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian to be chosen. The Guild's first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers $93,000 to be split 50-50. Reynal & Hitchcock have increased their own first edition to 50,000 copies, which will net the author another $20,000. (The French edition, now moving at a 1,000-a-month...
...night of Jan. 14, when Georgia's legislature met to elect a successor to Governor Gene Talmadge, son Herman's chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running third among the contenders, and the new governor was to be chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed...
There is, besides, the larger though less immediately practical consideration of civil rights that should serve to slow down any frenzied Congressional attempt to be rid of the Communists "once and for all." No Court has yet chosen to decide that American citizen Communists constitute a clear and present danger to the government, and it is doubtful that such a suppressive law would be found in accord with the Constitution. Until the Supreme Court finds that a man, by belonging to the Communist Party is automatically an enemy of society, Mr. Schwellenbach's little plan for clearing things...
Jerome Preston, Jr. '44 and John W. McNulty '48 were chosen co-chairmen of the Committee on Curriculum and Tenure, while William L. Bruce '47 will take over supervision of the '47 Class elections...