Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans for a large public meeting and discussion of foreign affairs next April were adopted by the Cambridge Chapter of the American Veterans Committee at its last regular meeting. At the same time, Thomas Hadley, a city planning engineer and Cambridge resident, was chosen to direct the newly-formed veterans' housing committee...
...Have chosen Dryden-one dissenting vote...
Last week, after many turnings, Averell Harriman's chosen path led him into a State Department reception room in Washington. Greying at 54, but still lean and handsome, he had just flown to the U.S. from Moscow. The President had appointed his successor-shrewd, driving Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had been General Eisenhower's wartime chief of staff. Now Harriman was to hold a last press conference. But before he could start talking, the door opened. State Secretary James Byrnes walked in. He was smiling and in his hand he carried a small leather case...
...import priests to care for the faithful, money to support their activities. The Vatican had permitted the U.S. clergy to choose the first three of their bishops, beginning with John Carroll of Baltimore in 1789, had then taken alarm. For the next century, U.S. bishops were chosen by Rome's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and those selected were most often either Irish or French in background...
...knows, drive angry men to claim their birthright as Cain claimed his. It looks to the U.S. as an example of the form of government which today promises the most for the Church's survival. It looks to the U.S. as an idealistic people who have at last chosen, or been forced, to take their place in international affairs. And it looks to Francis Cardinal Spellman as the practical, idealistic American who can best advise and guide its effort to utilize these forces in its favor...