Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not be surprising if the Republican expenditures for the entire campaign run over $7,500,000, if Democratic expenditures run about $5,000,000. Many a voter may feel that this is a lot of money to spend on a campaign. It is spent, however, to pick a President who will last four years, a Congress which will last two years. But the total cost of the campaign for both major parties would not run the U. S. Government today for 24 hours...
From the fight put up by the New York Stock Exchange against Federal regulation, from the war waged by U. S. power-men against the Public Utility Act, another group of U. S. businessmen who are about to receive Congressional attention were able to pick up many a pointer on how -or how not-to act when their turn came to go to Washington. That group was the nation's investment trust managers, whom the Securities & Exchange Commission is currently investigating as a preliminary to making legislative recommendations to Congress (TIME, Oct. 5, et ante). They have fallen over...
Small pecan growers pick their own crops whereas big growers depend on nomadic bands who go anutting after the cotton picking season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers...
...leader of a band of Bowery urchins who play harmonicas on street corners to pick up stray pennies, Miss Temple accidentally crashes the high society of the 1930's and finally ends up playing little Eva in "Uncls Tem's Cabin...
...would resign the presidency of Affiliated Broadcasting Co., his first step over the sill of big business since his utilities empire crashed in 1932. Shortly after the first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look...