Word: selectors
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...solemn task of selecting All-America football teams starts about the middle of November when sportswriters, coaches and colyumists begin to air their views. It goes on until Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is generally considered to be the Ail-American selector of All-America teams because he inherited the job with Collier's from the late Walter Camp, announces his selections. The Grantland Rice All-America team for 1932, compiled with the aid of seven sportswriters who saw the teams which Grantland Rice missed...
...they might have opened London's annual motor show last week with: "The Gear Shift Lever Must Go!" Ten of the 26 British exhibitors showed cars not equipped with gear shift levers but having at the centre of the steering wheel a minute gadget called a "pre-selector...
...Levy did his work on Fisk for Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...
...Walter E. Sachs, of the second Sachs generation (no Goldmans remain in Goldman, Sachs), succeeded Mr. Catchings as Trading Corp. president, and Mr. Sidney Weinburg, long a Goldman, Sachs partner, became vice president. Mr. Weinburg is widely known as an astute selector of likely issues, has contributed much to Goldman, Sachs reputation as sponsor of successes...