Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary was approaching. Senator Grundy was a natural candidate to succeed himself. Boss Vare chose as his candidate for Governor Francis Shunk Brown, onetime State Attorney General, Vare attorney in the Senate fight. Varemen approached Senator Grundy about a Grundy-Brown ticket. Senator Grundy not only spurned this alliance but also, without consulting anybody, announced that his candidate for Governor was Samuel S. Lewis, onetime State Treasurer. Promptly, with the help of William Wallace Atterbury, President of the Pennsyl- vania R. R. and Republican National Committeeman, Boss Vare chose Secretary of Labor James John Davis as his senatorial candidate, made...
...Gandhi, the most terrible grapple and insurrection of modern times would have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail. You know the rest...
...interests of paid golfers apart from their dealings with the U. S. Golf Association, which exercises jurisdiction over all amateur and open tournaments and has been suspected of deciding debated points in favor of amateurs, the P G. A. has lacked funds, direction. Last week the P. G. A. chose a new head to be tsar of professional golf- Albert R. Gates of Chicago. His powers are comparable to those of Tsars Kenesaw Mountain Landis in baseball and Will H. Hays in the cinema. His functions: 1) to use the money of the organization to promote business...
When Chairman Stratton selected President Compton as his successor he chose a man after his own heart. Both are midwesterners, both are physicists, both like to tinker, neither is an M. I. T. man. In its 65 years M. I. T. has had but one alumnus for its President...
Author Edna Ferber writes novels that thousands read. That she chose such a subject as Cimarron's is an indication of the growing interest of U. S. readers in the history of their country. For Cimarron, now the name of an Oklahoma county, once meant the lawless no-man's-land between Texas and Oklahoma which in the '80s was a. wilderness of free cattle range. In Cimarron Author Ferber tells how the Territory was settled; how it became gradually civilized, then suddenly rich from its oil. Now full-blood Osage Indians, bemillioned overnight, ride blanketed in limousines and leave...