Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Wisconsin agreed to hold another student election this week to pick another board to pick another set of Cardinal editors...
...Among the few U. S. columnists who admire Franklin Roosevelt, none is more loyal than William Randolph Hearst's Walter Winchell, the nation's No. 1 expert on Broadway. In Washington to pick the Government's prettiest female employe, Columnist Winchell dropped in for a White House press conference, stayed 43 minutes, swapped stories with the President. Mr. Roosevelt's best story concerned his most embarrassing moment: when, as Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he set a trap for a lady friend whom he suspected of espionage. The trap was never sprung...
...Bolles played the Good Samaritan, bringing his launch alongside the Rabbitt shell to pick Whitnack out of the water by the scruff of his neck and drop him back dripping into the bow seat...
...wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes, raised bedlam that once more provoked a storm of pained and angry protest from listeners...
Budlong and Fearey are the mainstays of the weight squad. Bob Russell and Frank Jourdan, a converted quarter-miler, may pick up points in the 220. Roger Shaefer is not far behind Donahue in the hurdles. Westmore Willcox, 3rd, whose father holds the meet record in that event, will run the quarter. David Ives in the broad jump and pole vault, Rosenberger in the latter event if his ankle heals, Russell and Weed in the high jump. Whit Dodge in the half, and Baker in the mile all may garner vital seconds and thirds...