Word: pick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase the purchasing power of the workers. Business, of course, made it plain that New Deal mistakes were to blame for the slump, emphasizing the lack of confidence which unsound policies have induced. In rather guarded statements economists asserted that only increased employment will cause industry to pick up, and more employment cannot be had without a better balance between price and demand...
...embattled committeemen and committeewomen sought to solve their problem soothingly with Names. Those bruited outside the meeting, ranging in age and political experience from 35-year-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh to Illinois' 76-year-old ex-Governor Frank Orren Lowden, were so numerous that the committee decided to pick some 150 instead of 100 philosophers...
Next day, as newsboys hawked George Leoles' name in the streets, he failed in his round of customers to pick up a single hat. Outside his shop marched an American Legionnaire picket. Soon a silent figure in the full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan joined the Legionnaire. George Leoles hurriedly sold his shop...
...smashed Bund and frantically waved at a gunboat which was headed upriver. The Chinese were fleeing Nanking and Mayell and Alley did not plan to remain with a handful of their colleagues to witness the triumphal Japanese entry. The departing gunboat put off a motor sampan, which returned to pick them up. Thankful for their rescue and still a little worried for the safety of their friends they left behind, Mayell and Alley were, a few minutes later, climbing up the side of the U. S. S. Panay...
...Library of Congress. When the new batch of White House reading matter was presented by President Lewis B. Traver of the Booksellers Association, it was parked first on the second floor, where members of the Roosevelt family could select what they wanted to read, and where Mrs. Roosevelt could pick books to place in guest rooms...