Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Reserve Act through the House. Farmers learned that he knows their business, being himself engaged in it, and that though he talks little he talks their kind of language: homely, directly, and red-head-hot with expletives like "dadbumit!" He is Southern. He is Dry. He could mightily help Candidate Smith...
...charge of the questionnaire, was as follows: "This questionnaire we are sending out will be as complete as possible, and ought certainly to get some results in the form of valuable suggestions. It will include such problems as construction, purifying, chemicals to be used, and even location. It will help us in several ways. In the first place, we will be able to make many innovations, to adopt suggested changes that would otherwise be impossible. Secondly, we will be able sooner to arrange for the actual planning. One seldom realizes what a difficult task the building of a swimming pool...
...respondents promptly accused the I. C. C., as it had been accused before, of presuming to equalize prosperity between two competing sections of the country, i.e. to help the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio coal interests out of the bog into which their labor troubles have thrust them. This the I. C. C. has no power to do, as was sharply suggested by the Senate last month. The barb in the Senate's pending investigation of the I. C. C. (TIME, Feb. 20) is a clause directing the Commissioners to cite statutory authorities for each & every one of their...
...beginning of the jury-tampering hearings, Father Burns had bellowed about "our" operations. "We were clearly within our rights . . ." he had said. And again, "I assure you the Burns agency is not seeking to help any guilty man out of trouble. My policy always has been to put the cards on the table . . . etc. etc." Now, with a jail sentence looming, Father Burns implied that such talk had been but the bellicose outburst of a parent trying to protect...
...handsome henchman who hired the Burnses and conveyed to them the Sinclair orders, he received a four-month sentence. To Oilman Sinclair's personal court record was added a sentence of six months for being the big rat in the trap who had ordered the others to help...