Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special meeting of the Advocate board last night, S. Cary Welch, Jr. '50, former Art Board head, was elected president of the magazine. The rest of the Advocate board was chosen earlier this year...
Next year's Council officers, also chosen at the meeting, will be Richard N. Swift '44 2G, president, and Richard E. Kronaurer 1G, director-treasurer...
...share of the proposals--proposals made by its own special committee. Most important are those particular recommendations that have to do with the Class Album: the committee outlined a system under which a Temporary Album Committee was to be appointed in a class's sophomore year, and an Editor chosen in the early spring of the junior year. Without these two pieces of action, the Album cannot be the "complete record of the class" that the committee envisioned; nor, as the most recent two Albums discovered, can the yearbook be published before Commencement...
...defeated in the 1924 G.O.P. primaries for U.S. Congressman but chosen by party chiefs as the nominee after the man who beat him died. He was chosen as minority leader of Congress in 1939; chosen to preside at the G.O.P. National Convention in 1940 (which he enjoyed) and to run Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign (which he did not enjoy). He was elected Speaker of the House on Jan. 3, 1947. If Harry Truman dies in office, he will become President. In 1939, when the New Deal was popular with Washington newsmen, they nevertheless voted him the best...
...Fence Me In. It has always been irresistibly tempting, Toynbee says, for a great or ancient body of human beings to think of itself as "The Chosen People." As late as the 18th Century, the emperors of China took for granted that they were the divine rulers of "all that is under Heaven"-despite the fact that their neighbor, the "Caesar" of Moscow, had assumed much the same title and traced his primacy back to both pagan Greece and the prophets of Israel. Londoners, cheering a march-past of Dominion troops at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, could...