Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle did not move against the committees until the referendum gave him true legitimacy and an overwhelming public mandate. Early this month, when a pair of Algerian Moslem visitors privately reported to him that the Algiers Committee of Public Safety had already chosen a list of "approved Moslem candidates'' for next month's election to the French National Assembly, he decided to act. "What imbeciles!" exploded De Gaulle. "The future of Algeria depends on these elections, and here they are circulating lists designed to sabotage all the plans." Still seething, De Gaulle fired off a peremptory directive...
Peter J. Solomon '60, Chairman of the Combined Charities Drive, said he hoped that there would be no political issues involved in the drive. The five recommended charities, he said, were chosen as "representative of the community...
Outside the Vatican, crowds will wait expectantly, eyes fixed on a spindly stovepipe that juts from a wall of the Sistine hapel. Reason: ballots are burned with damp straw-which makes black smoke-when votes are inconclusive, burned alone -which causes white smoke-after a Pope has been chosen. After the deciding vote, he Pope-elect is asked simply: "Acciptasne -lectionem? [Do you accept the election?]." His solemn answer: "Accepto...
...thoroughly that in a few years he was delegating responsibilities to him. As Litchfield moved up to the presidency in 1926, Eddie Thomas also rose, became general superintendent of Goodyear in California and worked for Goodyear in England before becoming president at 41, the youngest ever chosen by a major rubber company. Together they groomed Russ DeYoung, son of a Rutherford, N.J. carpenter, for the presidency. Both Thomas and DeYoung brush off talk of any basic changes in Goodyear's policies. As devoted admirers of Litchfield, they say that the policies "P.W." used to make Goodyear great are good...
Joseph H. Gardner '60, owner of the cafe, stated that the three men, who were intoxicated at the time, had chosen his coffee house by chance and without premeditation. He may settle the case out of court if he is reimbursed...