Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nathanial Ober '50 was appointed to command the ROTC battalion with a rank of Cadet Major in this week's series of Army releases, while carlier this month George J. Hauptfuhrer '48 was chosen NROTC battalion commander with a rank of Cadet Lieutenant Commander...
...Drabness. Even those who had no hope of getting a bid to the wedding were busily concerned over it. A correspondent to the Times fretted over the uniforms of the Household Cavalry chosen to escort the bride. "May we hope," he wrote, "to see the Guards again in scarlet and bearskins, and our hearts be rejoiced by the beginning of the end, not of austerity which we must endure, but of drabness...
...reduced his Cabinet from 25 members to 12 - a move which he called "a concentration of Government authority." This was a concession to the Gaullist cry for efficient leadership, but Ramadier told off the General, too: "[He represents] an attempt to upset the institutions which the nation has freely chosen." Paul Ramadier was ready this week to ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence...
...volunteer steering committee which will draw up a prospectus for the organization and present a constitution to the membership was chosen at yesterday's meeting. The committee will also pick a chairman for the group...
Wrote Deutsch, in the current issue of the weekly journal School & Society: "It must not be forgotten that the choice will doubtless be cited as an impressive precedent whenever a new college president is to be chosen. If one able and successful general . . . why not other military leaders? . . . Trustees will realize that what a famous general says will always gain publicity, and he will be in constant demand. . . . They may hope that such a man will be welcomed everywhere-including the circles of the well-to-do-and will bring in funds in large amounts to the institution...