Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee loomed twice in the news last week-once when five Rockefeller millions were bestowed upon them to help make them a national park (see p. 12), and again when White House whispers said that President Coolidge might spend his summer vacation on a southern eminence with the Great Smokies for his western horizon. Philip S. Henry of Asheville, N. C., had offered President Coolidge the use of "Zealandia," the Henry mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain...
...President in naming this Board's members. Also, it makes the relief provisions applicable to all farm produce instead of only six "basic" commodities. But-and here the fight will arise as of yore-the bill retains, as an alternative method by which the Federal Farm Board would help market the surplus, the much-debated "equalization fee"-a percentage levied upon all producers of a crop in which there is a surplus, to be spent eking out a "fair price" for producers faced with a loss on that crop. Last week, while the Senate anticipated hot debate on Senator...
...late Fred W. Upham, then national G. O. P. treasurer, asked Mr. Patten to write out a check for $25,000 to help meet the deficit incurred in the Harding campaign. He said he would give Mr. Patten $25,000 worth of Liberty Bonds in return. The deficit still amounted to six or eight hundred thousands, Mr. Upham told Mr. Patten...
...Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat-Jerome Kern...
Although these changes may be attributed largely to more fundamental causes than that of numerical growth. It will probably be admitted that the further restriction of numbers or the break-up of the college into smaller units would help reestablish the democratic spirit of the old Yale. Since it is advisable to cut the quota for admissions, the solution seems to lie in the reorganization of Yale College on the plan of the English universities on the basis of the old system of class distinctions, or by a scheme which combine both principles...