Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankruptcy when creditors failed to press their claims. Last week, while his son-in-law was sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...
...State, a snag arose. Executive Secretary Alex Rose of New York's young American Labor Party, which cast almost 300,000 highly welcome Roosevelt votes in 1936, indicated that his party would not form a coalition with the Democratic (or any other) ticket unless A. L. P. could pick the nominee for one Senator and for lieutenant governor. For Senator, said Mr. Rose, his party would like the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' dynamic little president, Sidney Hillman...
...part Indian, and while I might not agree with Browder or what he has to say I'll fight for his right to say it. And furthermore if TIME decides its covers on sex appeal alone-I'd pick Browder over Onion-head Hoover or Fudge-face Landon...
...speaker, aware that for some 500,000 of this year's graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought...
...student a halfback like Red Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain...