Word: assists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of the long-heralded farm relief measures to go before the Senate was defeated, in a nonpartisan vote. The Norbeck-Burtness bill, as it is called, provided for loans in $1,000 amounts to farmers of the Northwestern wheat belt to assist them in diversifying their crops. A fund of $50,000,000 was to be provided for this purpose. The vote was: In favor, 20 Republicans, 10 Democrats, 2 Farmer-Laborites (32) ; opposed, 18 Republicans, 23 Democrats...
...larger allowance for clerk hire because they come from large states and have many letter-writing constituents. Senator Pepper declared that his salary was $7,500 a year, but that he had to spend $10,500 out of his own pocket to hire extra clerks. A resolution to assist the three unfortunate might have been promptly passed, had not Senator Willis of Ohio demanded that its benefits be extended to others with inflated correspondence...
...plans under discussion include the possibility of appointing men to visit members of the class who are confined at the Infirmary. In addition to this steps are being taken to assist the Freshman class to organize a committee to look after the 1927 foreign students...
...before it has been more or less informal and hardly seriously intended to accomplish great things for the next season, other than to give the coaches some idea of prospective material and to develop morale. But this time, intensive spring practice must balance Yale's mid-winter practice and assist in avenging last year's defeat; it must enable the team to make every game its objective all summer if they like and finally it must take the place of the forbidden fall practice! These are all honorable purposes, but it is ridiculous to believe that spring practice makes...
...having this staff of younger men to assist him in training the men for their various events, Coach Farrell is relieved of many of the details of coaching. He is able to act in a more supervisory capacity, and in particular, to pay attention to the more inexperienced members of the squad...