Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican machines which traditionally divide Kentucky's rule between them, rolled up the biggest majority for Governor in State history. The New Deal gave Lieutenant-Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler a helpful boost toward the Governor's chair. Governor Ruby Laffoon & friends had planned to hand-pick a member of their machine for Democratic nominee at the usual party convention. But potent Kentucky New Dealers got busy on President Roosevelt and a pious letter from him, expressing hope that candidates would be chosen by primary elections, gave young Lieutenant-Governor Chandler his excuse to call a special session...
...with the utility industry. What the Administration wants is a clear-cut case of the U. S. versus a holding company, so that an adverse decision may be appealed by Government counsel. After Judge Coleman's resounding opinion last week, it looked as if the Government could pick its own case after Dec. 1, by which date all holding companies must register with SEC. Then SEC may be confronted with mass rebellion on the part of big holding companies, can prosecute for noncompliance with the law, which to date has not been violated. Sensing the threatened revolt, SEChairman Landis...
With plays as yet untouched, the Varsity mentor has not begun to pick his squad. Constant drill in passing, cutting for the basket, and effective guarding constitute the bulk of the early season practices...
...been a stiff battle to give Chicago opera since the Samuel Insull fiasco in the spring of 1932. Following winter there was no one to pick up the pieces and the house stayed dark. Then up popped Paul Longone who offered to be artistic director, help raise money. Backers for the first reorganized season were Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. which controls the building, scenery, lights; the late George Lytton (Hub clothing store); Banker George Woodruff; Lawyer George Haight; Harold Fowler McCormick. who is always a willing patron for opera in Chicago. Deficit that first season was only...
...Time Machine), Mr. Wells has pictured the world depopulated by interplanetary warfare, dominated by a monstrous chicken, consumed by bugs, perishing in foul air. In Things to Come mankind endures 30 years of war, a plague called the Wandering Sickness, a return to quasi-feudal society. After 1970, things pick up somewhat. A group of airmen band together, enforce peace and exercise a benevolent despotism. But by 2055, another revolution against peace, order and progress has broken...