Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1934 when jobless men from factory and skyscraper turned to pick out PWA highways or to hoe subsistence gardens, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service searched for a relationship between a man's occupation and his health. Death proved to be the best indicator of such relationship, providing the following rates, which Dr. Gumming published last week...
Backed by Eugene Meyer, Republican ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and by Democratic ex-governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, a National Institution of Public Affairs will pick students this fall from colleges and universities all over the country and take them to Washington for two months' "internship" in 1935. Non-partisan, privately financed, and self-governing, the Institution will have the cooperation of the federal government for its course in practical government. Conferences with high officials and tutorial study groups for individual contacts will from the preparation for a thesis every student will write on a particular...
...been like a good athlete who is always ready and always in training. And then some God-damned fool drops the ball and . . . they say, 'Baruch's a good fellow. Give him the ball.' " So many people believed that Baruch was about to pick up the NRA ball that he issued a statement: ''The answer is 'No!' Moreover, I have been offered none of the places described -'policy head,' executive or any other. I have no idea where these stories come from...
Last week Democratic delegates from all over New York State swarmed into Buffalo to renominate Governor Herbert H. Lehman and Senator Royal S. Copeland, pick the rest of their slate, adopt an out-and-out New Deal platform. Up from his great red mansion in Albany went the Governor to receive his party reward for faithful service. Up from his new Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan went Alfred E. Smith to nominate his old friend. Up from his proud new offices in Washington went Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported. Elsewhere at least six other meteorites were declared to have fallen in the water or on land. Only meteorite recovered was the Salisbury Beach fragment. When cool enough to pick up it was found to be a pitted, fused, 1-lb. mass. Astronomers at Harvard Observatory eagerly accepted it for analysis...