Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their month-long Quadrennial Conference, Methodists meeting in Kansas City decided who should succeed the retiring Bishop of New York, Luther Barton Wilson, who is aged and somewhat infirm. Bishop Francis John McConnell, hitherto of Pittsburgh, was the man they chose...
...clocks set ahead an hour, which was done. But then it was discovered that, though one of the distinguished City Councilmen has written successful novels, the City Council had written an impotent ordinance. There was no enforcement clause. Indianapolitans, including cinema exhibitors, kept their clocks as they chose with impunity. Time passed through Indianapolis on uneven feet. Confusion reigned. Lawyers puzzled...
...last week of their Quadrennial General Conference, the potentates of the Methodist Episcopal Church set out to elect three bishops. Two they rapidly chose: Dr. Raymond J. Wade of Chicago and Dr. James Chamberlain Baker of Urbana, Ill. Over the many able candidates for the third, they wrangled and ballotted 19 times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ...
Eager to establish the rights of atheists in the U. S., Charles Lee Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, chose to send godless propaganda to the Rev. Dr. John
After an administration which had been notable for the Chamber's persistent outspokenness on national legislation. President Pierson declined reelection. To succeed him the Chamber chose William Butterworth of Moline, Ill., president of Deere & Co. (plows). Judge Parker, who expects to be busy this year carrying out the newly-enacted Alien Property bill (War claims), was replaced as board chairman by Joseph Holton Defrees, Chicago lawyer. The four vice presidents are: President Alfred J. Brosseau of Mack Trucks (Manhattan), President Robert R. Ellis of the Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. (Memphis), President Robert Patterson Lamont of American Steel Foundries (Chicago...