Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure made it almost certain that Harry Truman would pick for the new Cabinet post an early foe of unification who had changed his mind last winter, when the Army withdrew its insistence on a single military commander. The man: Navy Secretary James Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat...
Apparently no big U.S. university can now afford to pick a scholar for its president. The U.S. college president, 1947 model, has to be a salesman, skilled at wheedling bequests from his alumni; a special pleader when it comes to dealing with his trustees; an executive when it comes to bossing his community of scholars. Last week, the University of Southern California picked a new president, and ran true to form...
Background music, in the appropriate bucolic mood, will be provided by Ruby Newman on lend-lease from the Hotel Statler, beginning at 7:45. Those without the cutie, car, or cash to attend all this can pick it up in the room easy chair by radio broadcast...
...Moines Register and Tribune the trip was old-hat; he had done it before with the late Wendell Willkie. Then he had come back hopeful. This time he sensed a worldwide feeling that peace "had been fumbled." The U.S., he feared, would not be able to "pick up all the checks...
...Sight . . . In Wellington, Kans., after a long hot drive, Wallace Peterson realized that he had forgotten something, turned around and drove back 50 miles to pick up Mrs. Peterson. In Pittsburgh, an ardent ball fan demanded a pass-out check, explained to the gatekeeper: "It's my wife-I forgot and left her in a restaurant up the street...