Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special consultant in the Department of Justice's trust-busting campaign. An able trial lawyer, he was at one time Dean of West Virginia University's Law School and left there in 1930 with offers of professorships in both the Harvard and Yale Law Schools. He chose Yale, helped Dean Charles E. Clark and Walton Hamilton make it as New Dealish as Felix Frankfurter's Harvard...
Since the death in 1936 of Egypt's corpulent King Fuad, the eyes of Egyptian jellaheen have watched the career of his successor-son, 18-year-old King Farouk I. On returning to Egypt to be crowned, the young King chose a commoner as his intended bride, pert little 16-year-old Sasi Naz Zulfikar, daughter of a palace lady-in-waiting, bestowed on her the name Farida, meaning "The Only One." Bickering resulted in the postponement of the King's marriage until Feb. 11. Bickering last week got Farouk into much deeper hot water...
...When a president dies, hire a new office boy," is the pet maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide...
Fearful lest it should leave behind in its dilapidated quarters some of its impeccable character, the Times pondered long before moving, chose a site little farther away than its staid Editor Geoffrey Dawson could throw a handful of type. Its new six-floor 18th-Century style building did not startle the antiquated Blackfriars neighborhood, for the fagade is of dull Portland stone and weathered hand-made tawny-brown bricks, each chosen with fond care and joined, as the Times said, with "a sympathetic mortar." Lest the 152-year-old Times lose some of its hoary atmosphere, a new rubber-floored...
...mean choice did California make, however. It chose a great Alabama team coached by Frank Thomas who was Knute Rockne's quarterback at Notre Dame in 1921-22. This choice gives California a chance to defeat a university which in four previous appearances in the Rose Bowl has never been defeated. An earnest of a thrilling game on New Year's Day is Alabama's 1937 record. Undefeated and untied this season, Alabama scored 225 points to 20 for its nine opponents, won the last three (from Tulane, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt) by scoring in the last five...