Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Able, scholarly Laurence Duggan, 41, former chief of the State Department's Division of the American Republics, had been chosen for the $15,000 job, not by his father but by a special committee (among the members: CBS Vice President Edward R. Murrow, Barnard's Dean Virginia Gildersleeve). Duggan pere attended the meetings as secretary, was chosen to notify his successor. Larry was afraid his father had railroaded his appointment. Said he: "Dad, I'd rather hear about it from someone else...
...revive the habit of courtesy to customers (a wartime casualty in England as in the U.S.), Retailer Fred Trippett of Hull instituted a novel incentive plan last week. Trippett handed out envelopes containing ten shilling notes to customers chosen at random, asked them to give them to the "most helpful and considerate" clerk. Said Trippett of his plan: "I have 25 girls on my staff and it is certainly keeping-them on their toes...
...time chosen by Koestler is 1937-39, a tense period when many Jews turned from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through...
Winners of the Dunster and Kirkland House exhibits which were held last week are expected to be announced tomorrow. The nine winners who were chosen from the list of entries in the initial competition in Winthrop House were declared eligible for the final shorting to be featured in the Fogg Museum at the end of the fall term...
Answers to the questionnaire, which will ask the student if he has yet chosen a vocation, if he intends to take postgraduate work, or what other plans he may have, will prove to be of "mutual advantage" to the office and to the undergraduate, explained Director John W. Teele. The placement bureau will know to what extent it should carry tentatively scheduled policies and the results also will will help the student by providing facts and figures to prospective employers...