Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Dakota " county proposal meetings" were held to choose delegates to state conventions of each Party, to be held Dec. 4. These conventions, according to South Dakota's practice, will select first and second choices to appear on Presidential primary ballots in the Spring. Most of the delegates chosen were uninstructed. In the Republican State Convention it will be a contest between the Hiram Johnson and the Coolidge men; in the Democratic, between McAdoo and Ford supporters; in the Farmer-Labor, between Ford and La Follette. In the Democratic contest, it was reported that McAdoo was sure to be chosen...
...fall fencing tournament to select additional members of the University fencing squad will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium. The tournament will be run off in five-touch bouts and from the winning fencers, Coach Danguy will select those who show the most promise to add to his University squad...
...Hubbard '24 has been appointed by the Phillips Brooks House Association to the chairmanship of the committee which will soon select the 25 undergraduates who will attend the ninth International Convention of the Student Volunteers for Foreign Missions on next December 28 in Indianapolis...
...idea of a panacea for things culminates in Shaw's ideas of marriage as shown in "Man and Superman". Here we have the highly intelligent woman who seeks and-finds the man most suited to be her husband. Every person was to select the right mate and in this way society's ills would be cured. Plato proposed that the upper class should rule and that this class should be encouraged to have many children, and thus to raise the standard of the race. That is Shaw's idea. He wants the world to be placed on the plane...
...McAdoo had himself intimated that he might soon deliver a comprehensive statement on national issues. But the situation was complicated by Mr. McAdoo's father-in-law, Woodrow Wilson. It is generally understood that if Mr. Wilson had merely to choose who would be the next President, he would select David F. Houston, who was Secretary of Agriculture and later Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet. At any rate, Mr. Wilson is understood to have no particular brief to hold for his son-in-law. He is perhaps opposite minded, and is expected to remain neutral...