Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chosen to be director of this administrative board was John Jacob (Jack) Kroll, plodding vice president of Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers...
Almost anyone else would have chosen another time to call on the president of the Bank of Guatemala. Guatemala had that very day threatened to break relations with Britain, which had declined to cede tiny, neighboring, contested British Honduras...
...along with people." This time he was the man who had not been able to get along with Trippe. He had felt that Trippe was hurting Pan Am by: 1) going back on his promise to hire a top operating man; 2) plumping for his monopolistic Chosen Instrument...
...bring Trippe to heel, Tom Morgan teamed up with Banker Colt, (Another board member, Manhattan banker & Hearstman John Wesley Hanes, was in, then out of the cabal.) They argued that Pan Am's fortunes were at a low point politically. Trippe's Chosen Instrument talk had so stirred up the Administration that even President Truman had stepped in to make sure that Pan Am would have plenty of competition (TIME, June...
Guyda played with the same Boston team in 1939 as an amateur, and was chosen for the United States Olympic soccer team in that year, the last in which the Games were held. By a special arrangement common only to soccer teams, an amateur can participate in professional activities during his apprenticeship. Since then, Guyda has been Freshman coach at Harvard...