Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Defense. Because Mr. Baruch had contributed largely to Democratic campaign funds, the appointment was considered a complimentary one. But it soon became apparent that the Baruch genius could apply itself as well to public as to private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment...
...Members of the Cabinet kept their fingers crossed and individually refused invitations to a preview of Dawn. Collectively they chose an anonymous & mysterious "technical advisor" who reported, according to a Cabinet announcement, that the execution scene in Dawn unfolds as follows...
...revivalist preacher was fixed with a nice choice of loyalties; he chose to respect the law rather than the sanctity of the confession which he had received and last week Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial in the village of Wentworth for having killed her father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told...
Simultaneously, last week, French airplanes soared over rebellious Riff tribes in Morocco. The Riff have been bombed so often that when a French plane approaches they scatter, after stampeding their cattle in all directions. Therefore the French chose, last week, a market day and scattered what were described as "light bombs" among the thronging market crowds of several rebel villages...
...guns, battered down the stone walls of the Alamo, butchered the remaining haggard Texans in cold blood. Only a Negro and a few women were spared. All through Texas cries went up: "Remember the Alamo." But Texans were not given to cries without action. To get Santa Anna, they chose a commander named Sam Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor."* Commander Houston wasted no time in routing the Mexicans...