Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lecture Course in Religion had found a real place at Harvard. Most of the lectures were well attended, the average attendance at the eleven lectures being 167. The first six were designed to help men better to understand the part of organized religion in the world today, and the last five touched, more intimately on the religious problems and perplexities faced by the individual. The lectures were as follows: The first half: Prof. R. C. Cabot, "The Need of Religion"; Rev. A. F. Hickey, "Roman Catholocism"; Rabbi S. S. Wise, Judaism"; Dean W. L. Sperry, "Protestantism"; Dr. H. S. Fosdick...
...case you are interested in such things, the leading players are Messrs Donald Brian, Herbert Corthell, and Miss Jeanette MacDonald. We've never heard of them, and can't help wondering...
...born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory to help support his widowed mother. At 17 he went into business for himself, opened a bicycle repair shop. On Saturday afternoons he rode in bicycle races, became Junior Champion of the vicinity, added thus to his fame, his income. But it was in four-wheeled, not two-wheeled, vehicles that...
...dividend by Hon. J. S. Shingler, multi-millionaire of Ashburn, Ga., and its president." Mrs. Felton then told how -she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help her. "I feel that I have been gagged, hogtied and delivered," said Mrs. Felton. "May God strengthen your ("newspaper! arm in your fight for a law that will give women and children and all depositors better protection than they now have for funds they put in Georgia banks...
...commercial methods he taught his sons Jonathan Ogden and Philip D. II, less by injunction than by example. Jonathan? J. Ogden as he prefers to be called ?left his studies at Sheffield Scientific School (part of Yale University) in 1883, to help his father run the family business...