Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Maine to California, the Railway Express Agency is reaching out its efficeint tentacles to pick up hundreds of trunks, bags, and boxes preparatory to depositing them inside the doors of several hundred Freshman dormitory rooms in Cambridge...
...founders regarded a diploma as a letter of recommendation, which each student must apply for and purchase personally. The same practice provails today. Unlike most other colleges, also, Harvard has never awarded diplomas to individual students at Commencement, but has requried graduates to make their own arrangements to pick up the document, or have it sent to them, after the exercises...
...read with much interest in the Sport Section of the July 27 issue your article covering the Honolulu race, and how through the efforts of Clarence W. MacFarlane the initial race from San Pedro was originally started. It was my pleasure to pick him up in a very dense fog, board his schooner and pilot him into San Francisco that memorable morning in 1906 when he arrived from Hawaii. It may be of interest to you and perhaps some of the old-timers in the yachting fraternity to know the true facts in this rather peculiar occurrence...
...Most ambitious dramatic broadcasting by cinemactors is done in the "Lux Radio Theatre," which started modestly two years ago as a program emanating on Sunday afternoons from Manhattan's Radio City. Policy of the program was to pick up cinemactors who had gone East for some fun. Top for an actor's appearance on the Lux program is now $5,000. Last June the Lux program moved to Hollywood. In its Manhattan run, the "Lux Theatre" had supposedly been administered by one "Douglas Garrick," fictitious character created for advertising purposes. In Hollywood, the "Lux Theatre" also...
Last week Florida Democrats held a special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews...