Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President suggested that the conference might aid the Government: 1) by appointing committees "to assist the Department of Agriculture in adopting its efforts to local conditions"; 2) by ascertaining some practical means by which agricultural indebtedness might be refunded along sound lines, so as to assist farmers and banks, essentially solvent, but pressed for credit...
...conference did endorse a plan for a $10,000,000 corporation to be financed by private capital to aid in refunding farm debts. A committee of two Minneapolites, three Chicagoans and two New Yorkers was appointed to draft the charter of the corporation, which would make loans to sound banks in the agricultural area that are threatened by the emergency. Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and Wallace are to cooperate in the selection of committees to dispose of the capital stock...
...President Wilson: "The Chamber of Deputies is profoundly moved by the news of the death of President Wilson. Having a grateful memory of this great citizen, under whose Presidency the United States brought to France and to her allies, engaged in the crudest of all wars, an inestimable aid, and whose every effort was for the creation of a definite peace by the organization of an international entente, this Chamber addresses to the House of Representatives of the United States the homage of its sentiment of profound regret." The Deputies assented in silence by raising their right hands...
...plot, briefly, was as follows:--Daughter returns from Chicago, with society gentlemen in tow. Papa's junior partner (Grant Mitchell) puts on bright clothes, and cuts out society gentleman, with the aid of an artificially colored past. The past becomes the present in the person of a motion-picture actress (Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic...
...Such suggestions and opinions can, however, be of permanent value if offered as parts of one consistent scheme. To follow a figure formerly used, planks can be of real value only if serving as part of a structure, or of at least a scaffolding. Some such scaffolding as an aid to intellectual architecture the CRIMSON hopes to construct in the course of the next few weeks. Of necessity of a skeleton nature and weak in many points, it may offer one or two steps for future builders or at least something which it will be profitable to fear down...