Word: picks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Since India is no Dominion, the person of her Viceroy, most important British administrative post, is not for her to choose but for the British Prime Minister to suggest. Labor politicians demanded that James Ramsay MacDonald pick a Labor peer for the post. He suggested Laborite Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron Gorell, president (1920-22) of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, Under-Secretary of State for Air (1921-22), author of Love Triumphant, and Other Poems. This met with such violent Conservative, Liberal, and even Indian opposition on the basis of Lord Gorell's "inexperience," that...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...
...touch with Grover Cleveland and I'll tell Cleveland: 'Grover, you were President of the United States during a hard-time period. We're going to have our drawing here in Chicago in our $1,000,000 prosperity drive. Now I want you to pick out the winning numbers.' "I'll get the numbers through the medium who'll be in a trance, and I'll write them down on a piece of paper. And nobody but me will know what those winning numbers are." Less occult was the manner in which...
Much of Copey's hold over his audience comes from his distinct personality. His gestures, slight inflections, and side comments, which are all a part of this personality, give his reading its individual stamp. The microphone cannot pick up these essential elements...
...announcement of the results of the five men picked for the Album Committee shows the same astounding mishandling. According to the explicit instructions on the ballots and the notices accompanying the photographs of the nominees, members of the class were to pick five men for the Album Committee by preference. When the results were made known it was clear that the votes had been counted by straight numerical tabulation and each figure was marked as an equal vote. When this was pointed out to the officers in charge, the answer was that the announcement on the ballot was a mistake...