Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest, he is brave, he is intelligent. I don't question his motives. To get where he is with the crowd...
Barber Simms: "Well, it's like this. I admire you both and I prayed for the nomination of each, and now you've got to dig in and help yourselves. I am through...
...cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help...
...save the local unions in the one State where they had not suffered inroads that the Illinois men agitated for local option on the Jacksonville agreement, and got it. WThether or not the action came too late to help locals in other States, whether International President Lewis had carried his doggedness irretrievably far, remained to be seen. The first overture for local readjustment, by Ohio's union miners to Ohio's operators, was flatly rebuffed last week. President S. H. Robbins of the Ohio Coal Operators Association said: ". . . not interested . . . will have no further dealings with the United...
...relatives sometimes ask us to lunch at the Ritz when they come to New York, but that's really little help when you're starving and can't pay your rent...