Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toppled like tenpins. First, the 921 delegates repudiated the pro-Taft old guard by a 3-1 majority and elected twelve Eisenhower men to go to Chicago. Then they formally instructed the delegation to vote for Ike-a break with the custom of sending officially uncommitted delegations. Finally, they chose Eisenhower's state campaign manager-Edward G. Janeway, a onetime Wall Street broker-as Vermont's national committeeman. It was the first time in memory that the job did not go to a lifetime Vermonter...
...Vermont Democrats chose ten delegates (with six: votes), all unpledged. ¶ Washington state Democrats picked 32 delegates (with 22 votes), most of whom favor Kefauver, and heard a stem-winder speech by Candidate Robert Kerr. Sample passage: "Eisenhower hasn't committed himself on anything. He is the nation's only living unknown soldier." ¶ North Dakota Republicans chose eight Taft men, one Ike man and five uncommitted delegates to go to Chicago. ¶ North Dakota Democrats elected 16 unpledged delegates (with eight votes). ¶ Hawaii Republicans received assurances that both Taft and Eisenhower would support statehood...
...chose physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study, Vannevar Bush of the Atomic Energy Commission, John Dickey, President of Dartmouth College and Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency for the task. These in turn picked Bundy...
...chose the U.S. 19 months ago for my new country, and I'm watching everything very closely. I am a great admirer of nearly everything, and hate to be critical. But, sir, how in heaven's sake can a man like Congressman Coudert be elected? Can't he see it is a lot better and healthier to fight on somebody else's land than here? It probably would help to send him for three months to an East German or Polish - to say nothing of Russian - uranium mine. It would help. EDWARD C. HANZEVACKY Mendota...
...orders piled up, but Rudier played no favorites; everyone got the same painstaking effort. The only favoritism he allowed himself was in the works he chose for his country home outside Paris and the figures lining his tiny gallery at Malakoff. There he collected such masterpieces as Maillol's Summer, Renoir's Laundress, Bourdelle's Heracles Archer, Rodin's John the Baptist. About 20 years ago, he cast a beautiful bronze of Rodin's L'Ombre, and ordered it set aside to mark his grave when he dies...