Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome indeed would she be in Rome, where she could help any man do his diplomatic duty. Baltimore and Washington, Berlin and Buenos Aires, Paris and The Hague knew her well-a woman of striking appearance, rich, gracious, restless, energetic, vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features...
...wheat member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Republican, Methodist, Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, where he is still known as a "political farmer." No wheat-grower, he publishes the Nebraska Farmer through which he preaches his agricultural gospel: no equalization fee; no debenture; the farmer must help himself. Wheat growers had rowed so long among themselves over a representative on the Hoover board that the President, impatient, picked Mr. McKelvie as his own compromise. Aged 48 and conservative. Mr. McKelvie anticipated that the reduction of the wheat crop by parching weather "ought to make it easy...
...Huston, tall, lean, with slate-blue eyes and tight lips, claimed credit for first breaking the Solid South, because, with his help, Harding carried Tennessee in 1920. Under Secretary Hoover he served two years as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Firm friends they became, have remained to this day. Mr. Huston raised a half million dollars for the 1924 campaign, even more for 1928. In Tennessee he is, among other things, vice president of the Chattanooga Wheelbarrow...
...display the stamina of their Curtiss-Challenger engine and they did strengthen public confidence in flying. Otherwise they accomplished nothing that had not been indicated by previous endurance flights. By operating their motor at low speed they kept it in long life. But that flying method does not help plane owners who must run their engines at high speed to travel from point to point...
...Insulls mean to continue their practical philanthropy, to buy more New England textile plants and thus "forestall financial ruin and consequent distress to numerous communities through enforced idleness of thousands of workers." In other words, having bought big stakes in New England, the Insulls must now help keep New England alive. They can afford to run a few textile mills at a loss if that will keep the workers there to buy light...