Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chose three more members of his State cabinet and a new State Relief Administrator. For Relief Administrator he picked a New York magazine executive who lives in Connecticut, Robert Livingston Johnson, 40, vice president and advertising manager of TIME. Mr. Earle, who was President Roosevelt's Minister to Austria before resigning to enter the Pennsylvania campaign, first met Adman Johnson last summer on a transatlantic crossing. The Governor-elect last week explained his choice on the ground that the campaign had bred so much bad feeling within Pennsylvania that he was going outside the State to pick a neutral...
...opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs, was limping badly. Their woman ran to the Federal car, drove it back to pick them up. As the automobile disappeared westward a State policeman who had been hiding in the grass, uncertain which side to take, popped a rifle ineffectually...
...Author. No one is more aware than Maxwell Anderson of the pitfalls of historical drama. Quibblers are quick to pick up anachronisms, inaccuracies. Realists find the playwright's exercise of hindsight irritating. Mr. Anderson's feeling about historical plays is that the form is only useful when it is related to a problem of the present...
...drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife and children, and pick up the unhonored draft. By no means embarrassed, Baiata calmly called on Otto Van Derck for another $25,000 piece of "financing." That was too much for the young bank clerk. Prompted by his 22-year-old fiancee, he told all to the police, who dubbed him the "world's biggest...
...Merchant Marine, Captain Fried, at 57, is famed for his ocean rescues-25 men from the British freighter Antinoe in 1926, 32 men from the Italian freighter Florida in 1929. Month ago, as skipper of the S. S. Washington, he sent out a lifeboat to pick up the survivors of a cinema-chartered plane which crashed 600 mi. at sea, while trying to take off newsreels of King Alexander's assassination (TIME, Oct. 22). For that rescue Captain Fried, standing last week for the last time in the shadow of the Washington's funnels, received his company...