Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penny, New York State's Board of Regents controls the federal government. New Jersey taxpayers, contrary to the opinion expressed in the CRIMSON editorial, are not being exploited by a law permitting school buses to pick up parochial school children, so long as the taxpayers of New Jersey have chosen to put the law on the books and have chosen to keep it there. Far more vicious, it would seem to me, is the effort of a minority of the state's taxpayers run to the federal courts and upset by court ruling what the majority of taxpayers refuse...
...roistering, hillside copper-mining town of Jerome (Ariz.), when a group of citizens sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner, who died on the day of his departure for London...
...Chicago Stadium last week, the night was filled with the music of haymakers-and lighted by flashbulbs. It was the semifinals of the national Golden Gloves tournaments, and 500 U.S. newspapers had a proprietary interest in the slugging. The contestants had been chosen in local contests sponsored by the papers. Though the fighters usually showed more spunk than skill, Golden Gloves had produced Joe Louis. The photographers worked as hard on their bosses' pet sport promotion as the leather-pushers. Their pictures were the sport shots of the week (see cuts...
James J. Tracy '50, or Cleveland and Wigglesworth Hall, was chosen manager of the Freshman swimming team yesterday. Also announced was the appointment of Timothy C. Murphy, Jr. '50 of Boston to the position of assistant manager...
Opposing proposed representation based on economic power as being unfair to countries without great natural resources or industrial development, he hoped to see "a world representative legislative assembly, numerically chosen according to the educational level of a country...