Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion are called The Kingmakers. They include such anti-New Dealers as Chicago's Phil Collins, Michigan's Mark McKee, Boston's William Doyle. Long before the greying, balding boys of the Legion assemble for their yearly carnival, The Kingmakers settle policy, pick a National Commander to explain and defend their policy. Last week in Los Angeles, where 130,000 Legionnaires went to drink and frolic this year, The Kingmakers worked with extraordinary dispatch, got their work done before the convention convened, averted the floor fights which usually attend their nominating maneuvers...
Straining of tackle and the sound of a drill were the aftermaths of Wednesday's hurricane as the University began to pick up its debris yesterday...
College students are finding it very convenient and economical to send their laundry home by the pick-up and delivery service of Railway Express, according to the Company's local agent...
...from August 1937 but up 10% to 25% since June 1938; 4) employment increased from June to August in about twice as many places as it decreased; 5) 94% expected a gain in business activity, but there was little enthusiasm. Sample industrial comments: Steel: "Quite sure it will pick up soon." Machinery: "Optimistic, but permanency questionable." Zippers: "Expect business to be good for a year or so until the Government has spent all the money...
...insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A. membership carried, and the union found itself in the dreamlike position of being able to pick and choose which shows it would deign to organize...