Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through Attorney Robert Moore of Michigan City, Ind., announced David Curtis Stephenson, who recently (TIME, July 18, 25) began throwing verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks made...
...Before he became a literary man, Jim Tully was, as everyone knows, a he-man who got slapped hard by life. His thick red hair was badly tousled in roundhouses, barrooms, boxcars and worse. Hanging around a small-time circus was comparatively idyllic. All he had to do was help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve the social viewpoint that was later to shock...
Harvey S. Firestone, Akron, Ohio, rubber fabricator and exploiter of rubber plantations in Liberia (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926), did not scoff. Said he: "It is no new discovery. It is going to help in increasing production, but not so much as is claimed...
...hours, but still, S. O. S., S. O. S. S. O. S.! Three steamships in that part of the Pacific opened their drafts and started toward the plane's course. The next message was panicky, "We are landing in the sea. We have a rubber lifeboat but send help." Nothing but silence followed, for hours. At Wheeler Field, near Honolulu, Army planes were readied for the search. The three rescue ships talked back and forth in anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward...
...Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, joint backer with the U. S. Department of Commerce of Colonel Lindbergh's tour, announced a new policy: to lend money to U. S. passenger air lines to help them buy "the most modern, multi-engined airplanes of maximum safety and comfort" and thus speed the arrival of the day when engaging a sky-parlor car seat from Chicago to Denver, New Orleans or New York, and back, will be as little a novelty as it already is for a Parisian to slip over to London or Berlin for dinner...