Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very glad I chose Harvard, Princeton was offered, but upon inquiring I was told that it bore more resemblance to a country dub than a university and that Harvard was the most cosmopolitan of your American colleges...
...have selected my man as carefully as I chose my first pair of long trousers. Of course I am for Governor Smith. I find that most intelligent and broadminded young people heartily approve of him. Briefly, Smith is more of a man than Hoover, has a better record and would make a better President."−Austin Lamont, youngest son of Thomas William Lament, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Lament Sr., is a Hooverite...
...meantime District Attorney Monaghan continued his examination of Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, alleged Master Mind of Philadelphia's underworld. There was much evidence of Mr. Hoff's Christmas largesse to sympathetic policemen. Eighteen pound turkeys were the gifts he chose, and he gave them in flocks. Turkeys mysteriously appeared on the doorstep of many an officer who had never met Mr. Hoff. In 1926, said District Attorney Monaghan, "Boo Boo" gave $250,000 worth of Christmas presents to policemen...
...Perhaps," said a Midwestern Hooverizer, "Perhaps it is just as well President Coolidge chose to go trout fishing in Wisconsin last summer." President Coolidge's presence in the northwestern corner of the State has made a lot of converts to Republican regularity in Wisconsin; also in neighboring Minnesota...
...Delaware, a Democratic convention acclaimed Thomas Francis Bayard, Senator and scion of Senators., and renominated him for a third term. For Governor they chose Dr. Charles M. ("Buck") Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania's football coach...