Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understood that Miss McKenna rejected opportunities to perform at other summer festivals and that she chose Boston out of affection for the site of her earlier successes...
...Founder William Wilson Corcoran was a Washington banker so rich and so well connected financially that he could and did underwrite much of the cost of the Mexican War (1846-48). While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate on the new American painters. Stabs and grabs at Europe by later benefactors have filled the Corcoran (on Washington's 17th Street, near the White House) with surprise items ranging from Sienese altar panels to French impressionists. Yet the heart of the Corcoran is its American collection...
...Mary Clarke chose to make Smith her principal heir and how she was able to amass $200,000 are questions as puzzling to acquaintances in Whitinsville, Mass. (pop. 8,000), where she was born, and Kingston, R.I., where she died, as they are to Smith fund raisers. The daughter of a Whitinsville doctor, she attended Smith in 1879-80 as a sophomore (she had studied previously at Wellesley), then dropped out. Smith's records show that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school...
...boss the Government's Housing and Home Finance Agency, President Eisenhower last week chose a man tailor-made for the job. He is Norman P. Mason, 62, head of the Federal Housing Administration and the Government's No. 2 housing man. As a replacement for Albert M. Cole, 57, who is resigning to take a big job with a Reynolds Metals Co. subsidiary, Administrator Mason moves into the top job with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass, lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals...
...temper of the times: threatening revolution, impending economic collapse and above all, human desperation. FDR may have been sensitive to the people's "aspirations," but he was also vitally aware of their needs and their sufferings. In combatting the wants of the economy and of the people, he chose not to fall back and regroup but to move forward, if need be, groping...