Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal board is required to help co-operative farm associations dispose of their price-depressing surpluses...
Rumbled North Dakota's dour Frazier: "Having robbed the farmers all these years, you think now they can help the farmers...
...Agricultural commodities compared with industrial products, are not sufficiently protected from foreign competition, with the result that farm imports lower farm prices in the U. S., help create farm surpluses...
...warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year-old son, flipped up a revolver, sent a bullet plowing into the fleshy leg of Deputy Sheriff Smith...
...allowed 10,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition to be sold to Mexico (TIME, March 18), the request of President Chiang was perhaps not illogical. He, like President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico, is engaged in putting down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State Department made any reply, it was intimated to correspondents that unless U. S. lives or property should be endangered by the newest Chinese civil war, the Hoover policy would be laisser faire...