Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Students' Employment Office, as in past years, will offer its services to seniors to help them in choosing a vocation. These services will be of two kinds, according to W. W. Daly, in charge of student employment...
England has no more right in India than she has in Ireland, or Egypt, or in South Africa, and with the help of God she will one day yet be forcibly ejected from them...
...congratulate you upon your well chosen news in Medicine. I was especially pleased to note that you commended Julius Rosenwald's latest philanthropy in establishing a clinic for the middle class. I wish others would follow his good example, for nowhere is there a greater need than help for the "poor and proud" in serious illness, by endowing good Hospitals so they can make rates that can be met by people of moderate means...
...public utilities was found necessary, Mr. Insull also drifted naturally into politics, in the role of large contributor to campaign funds. Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily to help Commerce Commissioner Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois get nominated and elected to the U. S. Senate, he was able to show that he had given also to the Democrats. Nevertheless, when Senator-Suspect Smith was rejected by the Senate last year, Mr. Insull shared his embarrassment...
...rather lean, idealistic-looking married man, looked upon two applicants for divorce and refused their request. Then he said: "I shall not allow you to impose more children upon yourselves or upon society. ... I impose upon you three years of birth control." And then he added that he would help them get a divorce after three years, if they then desire it and provided they have no more children...