Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carmine's objective: to pick up some California support for Averell Harriman's effort to get the Democratic presidential nomination. The Tammany leader knew that the California Democrats were for Kefauver in 1952 and that most of the leaders are now for Stevenson. But what, he reasoned, could he lose by a little quiet hotel-room politicking...
...Democrats [have] an even chance-or perhaps better-of winning the next election. It is therefore the concern of every American, regardless of party, that the Democrats pick the best candidate. Estes Kefauver has neither the stature nor the articulated political principles which the President of the United States should have. Averell Harriman has not yet shown that he leads rather than is led by the Carmine De Sapio-Tammany Hall Democratic political machine that got him elected...
Next step will be to build a voice-powered receiver. It will store up voice-electricity while the speaker is talking, then use it to pick up the answer while he is listening. Bryan believes that the entire outfit can be tucked into a plastic container no bigger than a matchbox. Mass-produced cost...
...shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned at first...
Dartmouth game tickets were ready for Houses last Thursday, but distributors from Dudley, Dunster, and Leverett failed to pick them up, according to Lunden...