Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommend him but the name of his crusading, pro-labor father. Carmine De Sapio, a colorless small-timer who runs what's left of Tammany Hall, was for Wagner, which meant that New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri was automatically against him. In doubt and confusion, the Democrats chose John Cashmore, 57, the borough president of Brooklyn...
Before developing the Sapphire and the Javelin, Sopwith faced two major decisions: 1) should the engine's compressor be axial flow or centrifugal?; 2) should the plane be delta-winged or twin-boomed (like the U.S.'s old P-38)? He chose axial flow, even though Sir Frank Whittle, who pioneered jets, advised the other; Sopwith thinks the Sapphire proved his own judgment right. His choice of delta-wing at first shocked Sopwith's crack designer, Sydney Camm, who dashed off to Yorkshire to seek "The Skipper," crying: "I won't have...
...weeks, Adlai Stevenson kept the Democratic Party guessing about his choice of a national chairman. The pols, including Cook County's Jack Arvey, urged Stevenson to keep Frank McKinney on in the job, or pick some other pro. But Stevenson, acting entirely on his own, chose a new face: Stephen A. Mitchell, Chicago lawyer. Like the choice of Wilson Wyatt as campaign manager (TIME, Aug. 11), the move was designed to reinforce the impression that Candidate Stevenson is independent of the regular Democratic organization...
...woman, it seemed, could fill the bill. But at 34, he chose "a ripping girl," and proposed as follows: "I've always thought of you more as a man than as a woman . . . Later on, say in two years' time, if you want a house and would like to settle down, I'd like to marry you." The ripping girl wisely said no. Years after, when Hughie had found more than one ideal friend among his own sex, she asked him: "What would you have done if I'd said yes? . . ." "Oh," he answered airily...
...laws, a blow which forced the great majority of Southern New Dealers into the arms of Southern conservatives. For the first time John Sparkman found his loyalty to the Administration in inescapable conflict with his loyalty to the South and his own political skin. As unobtrusively as possible Sparkman chose the South. He tried to avoid public discussion of the presidential campaign. "I have my own race to run," said he, "and I don't want to get mixed up in anything else." But well before the 1948 Democratic National Convention assembled, the Alabama political climate had grown unbearably...