Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bestowed the dignity of an earldom upon the Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Premier of Great Britain and Ireland from 1908 to 1915-the longest period of time that the office has been held by one man since the Ministry of Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). The new peer chose the historic title of Earl of Oxford*, and His Majesty's sanction for the revival of that title was obtained...
...leader of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons and First Lord of the Treasury (position nearly equivalent to the then unknown premiership). In 1853 it again fell into abeyance to be revived now in favor of H. H. Asquith, who doubtless chose it owing to his close connections with the great university...
...seen fit to ignore the fact that it has a perfectly respectable ancestry, although not of the best traditional stock, deriving from the long-ago time when Professor Dunbar convinced his colleagues that an economist might be a scholar. With the cock-sureness of youth, the School chose to demonstrate in its own way its preference for such things as the newest classic slogan, the clarion call to "Take Baby...
...chose as biographer Ray Stannard Baker, of Amherst, Mass. Mr. Maker, a man of 54, is the author of a number of books on public questions and (under the pen name of David Grayson) of a number of essays. After leaving the University of Michigan, he was connected with McClure's Syndicate and McClure's Magazine, served as an editor of the American Magazine. During the War he was attached to the State Department, and afterward served as Director of Publicity for the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference. It was there that Baker -the spectacled, professional...
...very hot contest. Grant was running for a second term. At a convention of Liberal Republicans in Cincinnati, Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, was nominated over Charles Francis Adams. Greeley was for high tariff; he had often flayed the Democrats. Yet the Democratic convention chose "to eat crow" and nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown...