Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talmadge, 24% for Mr. Camp. Out of the 410 vote units among Georgia's 159 counties, he had won 246 (40 more than needed) to 148 for Mr. Talmadge, 16 for Mr. Camp. Even "President Roosevelt's county" (Meriwether, in which lies Warm Springs) chose George, then Talmadge, ahead of Camp. In upon the victor poured telegrams from Conservative Democrats...
Besides Georgia (see col. 1), eight other States held Congressional primaries last week. One other (Connecticut) chose its November candidates at State conventions...
Last week when Special Events Director Henry Dupré put on one of his daily street broadcasts for station WWL (New Orleans), he chose from the crowd Bartender John Barry, interviewed him at the microphone. Barkeep Barry answered the questions, signed off with an unsolicited query of his own. Said he: "I want to ask Marie Vicknair up in Reserve, La. if she will marry me. I didn't have the nerve to ask her face to face." At week's end Miss Vicknair told station WWL and bashful Barman Barry that she would give them an answer...
...century and more ago when census takers began to go through the ghettos of German cities, Jews were obliged for the first time to adopt surnames. Sometimes allowed to pick, they chose names of the prettiest things that they could think of-Goldstein (nugget of gold), Rosenblum (blossom of the rose), etc. Last week the German Government again decreed that Jews would have to take names, not cognomens but praenomina, and told them what names to take. The decree ordered that any German Jew who has not an Old Testament given name which identifies his race must before next January...
...hour canny Premier Daladier chose for this extraordinary pronouncement, portly Leon Jouhaux, vigorous French trade union leader, was in the middle of the Atlantic en route to Mexico and the U. S.; Adolf Hitler was parading 1,350,000 armed men in German war games; the French Chamber was in adjournment; and General Franco was publishing his rejection almost in toto of Anglo-French proposals for a settlement in Spain...