Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week-end guests on the Potomac, the President chose three Possibilities for 1940: Senate Leader Barkley (see p. 10) and two Progressive La Follette Brothers, Senator Robert and Wisconsin's Governor Philip...
...McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord of Tammany, Boss John Curry, made a mistake. Instead of nominating McKee for a special election to fill Walker's place, he chose a Tammany wheelhorse, Surrogate Judge John P. O'Brien, and maneuvered McKee off the ballot. O'Brien was elected but 125,000 angry citizens wrote in McKee's name on the ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with...
...Open in 1925, retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked a clover leaf to chew while playing, as has always been his habit...
...Senate meanwhile hammered the squint-eyed Frenchman who as Finance Minister under Premier Blum officially was responsible for bogging down the State's finances in such a morass that the Blum Cabinet chose with relief to resign, namely Vincent Auriol. Today he is Minister of Justice in the new Chautemps Cabinet. Last week the Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been...
...grandson of the old transatlantic cableman, Cyrus W. Field, sharp-eyed Mr. Lindley has been a member of the Stock Exchange since 1902, a governor since 1916. In the 77th Division he served as an infantry captain in the War. Exchange members first chose him to be their disciplinarian in 1930, learned to like his strictness better than SEC spankings. When the nominating committee failed to rename him for governor last year he ran independently, easily...