Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, an old and vestigial political ceremony took place: the U.S. Electoral College gathered in the 48 state capitals and formally chose the nation's next President and Vice President. To nobody's surprise, they voted overwhelmingly (442 to 89) for Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon...
...state chairman, the central committee chose Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Behind the loser -one William H. Morgan of Cortland-was the conservative wing, led by former National Chairman and Postmaster General (1933-40) James A. Farley. After his election, Balch promptly demonstrated that his organization is still seriously divided: he hinted broadly that he didn't even consider Old Headmaster...
...commissioner (1944-47), Nunan found need for his own cronies in top jobs. For Brooklyn collector he chose Joseph P. Marcelle, a Brooklyn ward boss. For director of New York's alcohol tax unit: James B. E. Olson, his former deputy...
Because normal childbirth cannot be scheduled for any given hour, the A.M.A. and the commercial sponsors chose a Caesarean delivery for last week's program. Mrs. John Kerr, 38, wife of a sergeant stationed at Fitzsimons General Hospital, had had two babies already, both by Caesarean section. It was easy for her doctors to set the day and hour when they would perform the third...
...Meeting in Denver, the A.M.A. chose Dr. John Maston Travis, 75, of Jacksonville, Texas, as General Practitioner of the Year. Literally a horse & buggy doctor for eight years before he got his first Ford in 1913, Dr. Travis noted that general practice (as distinct from specializadon) is coming back into fashion. He himself has fathered two specialists...