Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Harold W. Koop, a former pupil of Dick Harlow's at Western Maryland, has been appointed line coach and assistant to Harlow. He will join Lyal Clark, Al McCoy, and one more assistant coach yet to be chosen in the big job of restoring pre-war style football...
...elections held just before exam period began last term, Richard T. Gill '48 was chosen to replace Albert J. Marks '47 as president of the Debate Council. Monroe S. Singer '47 and Ray A. Goldberg '48 were named secretary-treasurer and publicity manager respectively...
Despite Vishinsky's efforts, Bevin won and Iran remained on the Council agenda. But London thought Vishinsky might win his case indirectly. The Iranian Majlis (Parliament) had chosen a new Premier, 65-year-old Ahmed Qavam, by a vote of 52-to-51. In spite (or because) of his large holdings in Azerbaijan, Qavam is Iran's most pro-Soviet politician. At any time he might withdraw the Iranian Appeal...
Most of the Russians stayed on the train, kept the curtains drawn. But Colonel General Shtykov, head of the delegation, went with his immediate aides to the Chosen Hotel. There a teetotaling young U.S. Signal Corps lieutenant, detailed as manager of the hotel, was driven to drink for the first time in his life by the Russians' policy of ordering and then refusing meals and other services. The lobby telephone disappeared, General Shtykov had to have it. The Russians ordered all cars cleared out of the hotel garage to make room for General Shtykov's cars; the harried...
...conference was discussing how to get 240,000 tons of northern coal and 1,000 tons of northern steel shipped down in exchange for the south's surplus rice; how to unify Korea's two currencies (Russian occupation rubles in the north, Japanese-issued Bank of Chosen yen in the south); how to form a provisional government from the right and left factions which had grown out of Korea's go-odd political parties...