Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Padilla was also banking on the sentiment for democracy that was in the postwar air of the hemisphere. In recent months both Cuba and Peru had chosen their Presidents in free, apparently honest elections. Now Brazil showed signs of switching from the corporate state to a more democratic setup. Perhaps Mexico would get the idea-and if it got the idea, maybe Padilla would be its choice...
Last week the first four (chosen from 50 applicants) were graduated as full-fledged "sky pilots," planned to spread their several wings over Africa, China and Mexico. Beaming with pride, Bob LeTourneau viewed them as forerunners of a "mighty armada of flying missionaries...
None of the men who served on the two boards were officers with current vital wartime jobs; that was one reason they were chosen. The three on the Navy Court were all graduates of the Naval Academy, all of them well liked in Navy circles...
...United Nation. The Government, too, prepared to go home. Home was 750 miles and eight exile years downriver from Chungking. Home was Nanking, chosen capital and symbol of republican China...
...which led to the confusion and unease last week. The lack of completed plans and readied staffs to arrange the surrender and begin the actual occupation had nothing to do with the basic theory that conquered Japan should be ruled through its abjectly subordinated Emperor. In fact, having once chosen to deal with and through the Emperor, the occupiers could only hope & pray that he would be able to take and hold effective control until they could land troops in Japan. For better or for worse, the whole success of the occupation turned temporarily on the Emperor's success...