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Word: chosen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After surveying Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the self-chosen priest of omnipotent air power told U.S. newsmen in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Good News? | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Sitting in on the discussions will be nine industrialists chosen by the National Association of Manufacturers, nine chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, eight delegates from A.F. of L., eight from C.I.O., one each from the United Mine Workers and Railroad Brotherhoods. Their chairman, chosen by mutual consent, will be North Carolina's Judge Walter Parker Stacy, a sober and fair-minded arbiter of many a past labor dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Around the Table | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...House Committees set Wednesday, November 7, for the first meeting of candidates interested in executive positions on the Freshman annual. O'Donnell indicated that about seven talented, experienced, individuals would eventually be chosen by the Council to fill the key editorial and business posts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN DISCUSS CLASS ACTIVITIES | 10/30/1945 | See Source »

...President himself had chosen his official relatives, sometimes with a haste which now came back to haunt him. No matter how good a banker John Snyder had been, it was now clear even to his friends that the job of Reconversion Director was still too big for him. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had failed miserably at London, and done little to elucidate U.S. foreign policy. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach, the big strong man from the West, had settled no labor quarrel, and was reported to be fed up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Muddling Through | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Revolution by Law? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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