Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locomotives drawing boxcars, cars that kept tipping over on their back wheels, members disguised as Indians, African savages and Scotsmen on skis, had a separate parade of their own, more disorderly than the main Legion parade. Two days later, as "Chef de Chemin de Fer," the 40 & 8 chose Fred Fraser, chief of the mail and records division of the Veterans' Administration in Washington...
Before Franklin Roosevelt chose Hugo Black as the man best fitted to fill the one vacancy on the Supreme Court the Department of Justice went carefully over a list of some 60 possible appointees. That not one of the President's advisers had uncovered a bit of information that was common gossip or had passed it on to the President, seemed to be the shocking significance of the President's statement. It was on this point that the President's ablest critics blamed the President. One- time NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson, who currently flays the New Deal...
With two men of this mettle, Mr. Sanderson relates in a highly readable book published this week,* he set off for a section of West Africa called Mamfe. He chose it because while it was unsanitary, and disease-ridden, it was nevertheless teeming with the beasts he wanted. Hundreds of specimens collected by the Sanderson expedition had never been bagged before. One of the first animals he encountered was a horrible, smelly little creature named the shrew. It looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson...
...provinces. To the governments of Germany, Italy. Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala it has been for almost a year an autonomous state. Significantly, the Vatican, too-which, whatever else may be said, works as hard over its diplomacy as any first class power-chose the day after Santander's fall to extend de facto recognition. Having cooled his heels in Rome for three months. Pablo de Churruca, Marques de Aycimena, accredited Chargé d'Affaires to the Lateran Palace from General Franco's Government, was summoned by the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli...
...speak only to Lowells, and Lowells speak only to God," where young Jews yearn to become Louis Brandeises and young Catholics hope to be Joseph P. Kennedys, there may be no more frustrated individuals than in other cities. But in Boston an ambitious young Harvard psychiatrist. Dr. Merrill Moore chose to study the problem of suicide. By last week he had reached several conclusions, not all of them new to psychiatrists, but enlightening to laymen: 1) Suicide is "an important disease." 2) ''Its incidence can be materially decreased. ..." 3) It "is the ultimate expression of a personality disorder...