Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thereafter the Viceroy, in consultation with representatives of the chosen legislators, will set up a body to draw India's new constitution. If the new proposals are not acceptable, the British will consider "some alternative or modified scheme." The 562 autonomous native states (pop. 95 million) will be invited to take part...
While historians speculated, Washington acted. Retiring War Secretary Stimson and Navy Secretary Forrestal wrote a joint letter to President Truman, recalling that President Woodrow Wilson had personally chosen "the World War" as World War I's official name. To Harry Truman they recommended "as a matter of simplicity and to insure uniform terminology" the term "World War II." The phrase had been used, they said, "in at least seven public laws [and] has been accepted by common usage." Last week their letter, stamped "Approved" by President Truman, duly appeared in the official Federal Register, henceforth will set usage...
When he abdicated, Hays' successor to the reported $200,000-a-year job had long since been chosen. He was the darling of U.S. free enterprise: handsome, grinny Eric Allen Johnston, 48. He will go to work immediately, but will keep his job as President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce until...
Entitled "Let Freedom Ring" and signed by the Emergency Council, the stapled muzzle proclaimed in patronizing tone that the "function of Jester "is to be a humorous magazine, in the New Yorker Style, but the editor has chosen this issue as his personal medium for an adulterated discussion of a matter which has already been settled...
Electives satisfying the "General Education" requirement would be chosen from courses now in the curriculum to which would be added new courses designed to fill particular needs...