Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does the author, as one reviewer has suggested, always "invent arguments for his opponents that not even the stupidest of them has used." The beauty of Arnold's book is that he quotes freely from Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, and Westbrook Pegler. Perhaps Arnold does pick the more stupid of their writings, but at a casual glance these excerpts seemed rather typical...
Neither Mr. Taylor nor Mr. Lewis attended the Biltmore conference. This year, as last, formal negotiations were left to those two sons of pick-&-shovel coal miners-Laborman Philip Murray and Steelman Benjamin Franklin Fairless. With the aid of their respective delegations, they simply put in black & white the generalities previously agreed upon. For the union, the new contract is not so favorable as the old. In the face of Recession's realities, John L. Lewis had been forced to yield ground...
...City by Socialist Oscar Ameringer. A laborite Will Rogers, he expresses his philosophy in his editorial column each week. Sample: "Nobody asked us yet, but if we were called upon to draw a picture of contemporary civilization, we'd draw a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each others' pockets with pitchforks...
...California Fruit Growers Exchange. Like most Warner pictures, Gold Is Where You Find It contains capsules of information for the curious, sugarplums for the romantics, action for whistle-&-stomp addicts. With the footnoting style of the documentary film, it begins by sketching the change in mining technique from the pick-&-pan methods of the forty-niners to the high-pressure system of 30 years later. As the rows of hydraulic monitors claw the gold from the hillsides with watery talons, farm lands in the valley below are mucked under by the sluiced silt. Actor George Brent commands the monitors...
Walter Winchell is an editorially free man so long as he keeps his signed column to Broadway trivia. Let him pick up from his liberal friends a political notion at odds with the prevailing Hearst policy, and Walter Winchell might become as voiceless as a $35-a-week Hearst reporter. Rare, however, is such smothering as Winchell got last week...