Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoping that this may help clear up a wrong inference, it is submitted for what it is worth. It is not believed that TIME desires to draw inexact parallels with the conditions of other States where the governing bodies are politically controlled by the State executive department...
...have thought of all kinds of useful things that Vivian could do. She could organize a Missionary Expedition into the interior of Africa to teach the Monkeys sanitation and hygiene. She might help her father publish a paper on the cure of infantile paralysis. (Just buy a monkey and never handle him with gloves or "fub" him and you will know how to take care of that dread disease...
...help Mr. Hoover, Col. Horace A. Mann of Tennessee, chief undercover Hooverizer of the South during the campaign, was established in a Miami Beach hotel to greet Southern politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover presence were ushered a few Southern gentlemen, ponderously respectable, eager to impart advice, to deplore the Negro's domination of Southern Republican politics. Infinitely patient, the President-Elect listened and listened...
...Pierpont Morgan: "I am here all alone. All the others have gone to the Ritz. But there is really nothing I can tell you, for we have not yet met with our associates on the experts committee. However, the time may come when we shall need your help, and we shall certainly...
...time immediately following graduation is probably at once the most decisive period in the life of the college graduate and at the same time the one most subject to purely fortuitous influences. Any arrangement to help undergraduates prepare for the transition would be welcomed, and in particular such a one as in the present instance, where the individual's interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction...