Word: selective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More select was another political feast, given in Madrid last week by Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond. Present were Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera...
...president a famed person outside the industry. General John Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member of his staff...
Employed in a subordinate capacity at Bethlehem Steel when Mr. Schwab assumed the management of that company in 1904, Mr. Grace was chosen by Mr. Schwab as one of the "Company of Fifteen"-a-select group of those Bethlehem employees whom Mr. Schwab considered most able. By 1915 Mr. Grace had acquired something over a million dollars in salary and bonuses. Belonging emphatically to the class of those who have dressed well and succeeded, Mr. Grace has frequently lamented Mr. Schwab's informality in attire. When Mr. Schwab made his inaugural address as president of the American Iron...
Within the committee there were two diametrically opposite points of view which could not be reconciled. The four other members of the committee took the view that where the office of chairman is not specified on the ballot, a legally elected body has a right to select its chairman by its own vote. They adduced in support of this view a precedent of at least three years immediately preceding 1925, where this was done. My point of view was based on a four years precedent, namely that the person receiving the highest number of votes should become chairman...
...happened last week. Representative Fred Albert Britten of Illinois, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House, took it upon himself to cable Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and suggest that a select committee from the House of Commons meet with the Britten committee, "preferably in Canada after March 4," for "friendly discussion" about applying the much-vexed principle of seapower equality between the U. S. and Britain to all warships unaffected by the Washington treaty of 1922. When Secretary Kellogg heard about it he as good as called Mr. Britten a fool. "I refer...