Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Committee this year will select a chairman; it is to be hoped that he will lead his fellow-members in endeavors such as free Reviews, which have typified the actions in the development of the last two groups. The work of the Committee this year should climax the abolition of Freshman elections and leave the chairman, the best man for the job to take the lead in the Freshman student government...
...while he was with Armour, whose founder, Philip Danforth Armour, a parishioner of his father's, had promised to make George Lorimer a millionaire, that he gained the experience which enabled him to select the conservative articles on business, the personal experiences and success stories for which Satevepost became famous. When he had trouble getting the material he wanted, Editor Lorimer wrote it himself, among his best efforts being the shrewd and practical Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Contemptuous of things highbrow, Editor Lorimer developed the current commercial, snapper-ending short-story technique...
...figure among the twenty-five million people known familiarly as Democrats. That he will accept a third nomination is officially doubted but that he will designate and bestow his blessing upon his successor is unchallenged by all political seers. And from the ranks of the elect he will probably select one of the following three stalwarts, Cordell Hull, Henry Wallace, or George Earle...
...industrial unionism shall survive. In the General Steel Casting case, the Board last week ordered an election by crafts, an A. F. of L. victory. In several other cases the Board has ordered plantwide elections, which, in effect, deprive the craft unionists of their right to select their own bargaining representatives. And A. F. of L. would like to see the Wagner Act amended to read like the Railway Labor Act, which provides for bargaining by craft or class of employes...
...haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending at the moment...