Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not help nodding with indignation at the contemptible, malicious utterances of Rev. R. J. Wilson in TIME, Sept. 10. I pity his robust ignorance...
Prohibition, which it is Mrs. Willebrandt's sworn duty and, intellectual passion to help enforce, was of course the sole burden of the Willebrandt oration to the Methodists. But she had laid herself open to Democratic charges of religious incendiarism. What would Hooverism have said if a Smith supporter, let alone a public official, should cry out for an anti-Hoover uprising of Roman Catholics...
...majorities. But he yields to no man as a writer of propaganda. In a bulletin which he composed last week he pictured Nominee Hoover as virtually the sole author of Coolidge Prosperity and the latter as a "world wonder." Money is what counts in an election but fine phrases help and James William Good knows it. It is very much like being an apostolic missionary. Sometimes you have to wrestle for a man's political soul for hours and hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn...
...from this area were fragmentary, telephone and telegraph service was interrupted. But it seemed that the hurricane had diminished in violence during its passage from Porto Rico. Nineteen, at last report, were dead on the East coast of Florida. President Coolidge, alarmed, called on nation and Red Cross for help...
...very easy to make fine speeches about peace, and I know I have been reproached by my political enemies for producing words instead of deeds. I do not say that the German Chancellor is one of these reproachers. His speech was very eloquent. Still I could not help feeling that some such reproach underlay...