Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Corps and OSS in Italy, has been elected chairman of the Liberal Union for the next term, officers of that organization announced this week. New vice-chairman and head of the Liberal Action Committee is Harry A. Mendelsohn '48, while Timothy P. Miller '48 was chosen as secretary and C. Taibi '49, treasurer. Other officials selected were: Thomas H. Caulfield '48, chairman of the Harvard Affairs Committee; and Richard T. Gill '48, editor of the Progressive...
...surf licked ever higher. Labor Conciliator Edgar Warren, the man chosen to settle the threatened meat packers' strike, hinted that the only solution was a ½c-a-lb. increase in the price of meat bought by the Army, Navy and UNRRA. Chester Bowles, his bathrobe soaked to the belt, remained...
Last week Henry Ford II: 1) was chosen as "Young Man of the Year" by the Junior Chamber of Commerce; 2) made the judges look mighty good. In a solid, sense-making speech to the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit, he told both management and labor just how they were falling down...
Some of the advice looked suspiciously ill-chosen. There was good reason to believe that Harry Truman, who has repeatedly stated that he wants the Government to interfere as little as possible, would shudder at the thought of sabotaging the free enterprise system. Yet many observers believed that his fact-finding proposal, with its implications of pegging wages to a company's earnings, would do just that in the long run. And here was Harry Truman asking his citizenry to rise up and demand...
Accelerated language courses, patterned after those used successfully in ASTP programs and in Civil Affairs Training Schools, will be offered to graduate students and to qualified undergraduates, training to be given not only in languages but in a broad knowledge of the chosen region...