Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge told Nominee Hoover that he would help his campaign if and when necessary. Last week to Brule went blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. Senator Schall had said he could approve of neither. Hoover nor Smith for a farmer's reasons. After seeing the President, Senator Schall said he had never actually opposed Nominee Hoover; that he would now in fact support him, being convinced of his honesty and ability...
...would raise and spend $2,000,000 in this autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...Trade Union Congress, settling to business, refused to admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...
President Coolidge has promised to help along the Hoover campaign if and when he seems needed, but not before...
Politics: Democracy, with all its faults, is the only possible system of government that helps the individual to help himself. The day will come when the experimental methods now used in the natural sciences will also be applied to social problems...