Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work Done. To set up and run this very first agency of the First New Deal, the President chose Tennessee-born, Georgia-raised Robert Fechner. Because Robert Fechner was an A. F. of L. unionist, and A. F. of L.'s William Green had at first opposed CCC as "forced labor," the choice was bound to be interpreted...
...between two rival conventions called for next month, C. I. O.'s March 27 in Cleveland, Homer Martin's March 4 in Detroit. Presidents Thomas and Martin last week moved to protect themselves against each other's legal maneuvering by hiring high-powered lawyers. Mr. Martin chose Frank P. Walsh of Manhattan and Frank Mulholland of Toledo. Mr. Thomas chose Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, counsel for years to Sidney Hillman's embattled Amalgamated Clothing Workers, son of the late Chief Justice, brother of Ohio's new conservative Senator...
They came-that strange four-to live with Vag almost as soon as he had returned to college in September. He chose their names out of the compact little gray course book and later checked up on their families in the Crimson Confidential Guide; but now that they were really going to stay with him, Vag wondered how well they would all get along...
...Smith, who had served with distinction for 18 years, was ousted after he had refused to give jobs to friends of newly-elected Governor James Michael Curley. Governor Curley asked Louis Joseph Gallagher, president of Boston College (Roman Catholic) to suggest a bright young Catholic for Commissioner. Dr. Gallagher chose Mr. Reardon, who had twice flunked State examinations for a superintendent's license...
...Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...