Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates of 150,000 miners present. They came from three districts in the heart of the anthracite fields, Nos. 1, 7 and 9, and they came with division in their ranks. District 1 contains 70,000 miners of the 150,000 in the group and District 1 recently chose as its leader, by an overwhelming vote, Rinaldo Cappellini, young Italian "radical." The defeated candidate, William J. Brennan, backed by the Lewis administration, retires from the Presidency of his district on August 1. But already young Cappellini is eager to seize the reins...
...young Chinese Emperor (he was allowed to keep his title by republican China), was recently married. It is customary when a Chinese Emperor marries his principal wife for him to choose marriage names. Pu Yi chose Henry for himself and Elizabeth for his wife...
Hoping to pacify the island, the President and Secretary of War Weeks chose as Reily's successor Representative. Horace M. Towner of Iowa, Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee, who on arriving at his post was greeted with a tremendous ovation, " the greatest celebration that the island had ever witnessed...
...last long. Governor Towner chose a Cabinet composed principally, if not entirely, of Unionists. At once the Republicans began to storm as the Unionists had stormed previously. When Secretary Weeks went to the island recently he was forced to listen to three hours of wrangling among the local politicians before he could speak. No protesting delegations have yet arrived in Washington, but the Administration anticipates their coming...
...other words, a Democratic Shipping Board chose the experts who ordered the trial trip, and the experts delivered their opinion to a Republican Shipping Board which put them in effect. The two statements are not contradictory...