Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer-a big-framed, ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes of the textile war- unionists flogged, one woman murdered, the Marion slaughter. To meet these...
...mathematical and with a strong poker element. A player may have one Coal Mine card, for instance, which, if sold to another player might enable that player to break the bank. Or he might be willing to pay several times the face value for a Pottery card that would help him build up a Pottery monopoly. A smart Stock Exchange operator might be a tremendous success at the game, which resolves itself largely into clever trading. On the other hand, the better the game becomes as a game, the less effective it becomes as a course in finance. It does...
Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs. Mr. Broun admits he has little sympathy for debutantes who get ghosts to help them confess their insincere boredom. He writes: "Surely in a proper finishing school there must be some course on 'How to bare your soul at fifty cents a word...
...monastery in Milan, Italy, monks without professional help made a sound film of prayers, organ music. They refused to sell it, sent it instead to Rome for the Pope's diversion...
...help the student meet his fees and other expenses, there was disbursed last year $484,595 in scholarships, fellowships, and loans to over...