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...Deets Pickett, researcher for the Methodist Episcopal lobby: "The liquor interests are planning to expand their trade by exploiting boys and girls, particularly girls. They are planning to fasten their grip upon the nation by secretly controlling the newspapers, paying the private debts of men in influential positions, subsidizing writers, boycotting manufacturing concerns hostile to them, infiltrating their agents into public and private organizations, misleading the foreign born and working in close agreement with the disloyal, the vicious and the criminal." Researcher Pickett described himself as "a reasonable...
...commonplace for comment by most Washington correspondents are the traditional and legalized forms of petty graft practiced by Senators and Representatives at taxpayers' expense. To initiate voters into this Congressional mystery William Pickett Helm, oldtime syndicate writer, has written Washington Swindle Sheet published this week by Albert & Charles Boni of Manhattan. Taking as his text the official audit of the Senate's miscellaneous outlay for fiscal 1931, Mr. Helm shows how Senators pad their pockets...
Sirs: "Died. Bill Pickett, 65, oldtime bulldozer on the famed 101 Ranch of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller; in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro . . ." (TIME, April 18). I have Col. Zack T. Miller's letter for a suggested correction. I quote: "Bill Pickett would weigh about 170 Ib. and was 5 ft. 10 in. high and was the originator of the bulldogging stunt (not bulldozing). This nigger was one of the best hands that was ever on this place and up to the time he died would rather jump off a good horse onto a wild steer than...
Sirs: Issue April 18 Milestones mentions death of Bill (or "Nigger"-as he was always "billed") Pickett (am sure spelled with two t's). "Bulldogger" not "Bulldozer" is technical rodeo term {Continued on p. 50) {Continued from p. 6) for his act and those who these days throw steers-by horns. How necessity-danger-was responsible for Pickett's act is an interesting tale: It seems he vyas a "hand" on a Southwestern ranch, was helping load cattle, went into the car to "untangle" the load. Those starting the cattle into the loading chute...
Sirs: . . . The writer, among many thousands, was present on the occasion. According to the advertisement Pickett was to enter the bull ring, wearing a red shirt, with no other person to be in the ring. Instead, prior to his entrance, besides the beautiful reddish-roan, fighting bull, there were some five or six well mounted white cowboys of the Miller outfit, all armed with large calibred revolvers containing blank cartridges, and also carrying lassos. . . . As this was contrary to the announcement, the already existing antagonism of the majority was increased. After an unusually long wait Pickett appeared...