Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. 0. P. organ in the East, published a "piece" about Nominee Smith written by Arthur Brown Ruhl, a correspondent seasoned by a quarter-century of political writing in the U. S. and abroad. It was not a "piece" calculated to help Hoover beat Smith. It was an honest effort by Writer Ruhl to report on Nominee Smith as he saw him. Excerpts: "There is something intensely real about 'Al' Smith . . . something alive, dynamic, go-ahead-reality in a spiritual sense. . . . "The late President Harding, let us say, presented...
Agriculture. The Democrats said that the Republicans had "practised deception" upon the farmer for more than 50 years "through false and delusive promises" and an unbalanced tariff. The Democrats promised legislation to help market surplus crops, by means...
Milan, last fortnight, Captain Delafons was stopped on the street by two plug-uglies in civilian clothes who demanded his credentials. Suspecting that their motive was robbery, the Royal Greyhound called for help. Soon a policeman hustled all concerned to a police station. There the plug-uglies proved that they are Fascist detectives, and Captain Delafons that he is a King's Messenger...
Louis Eckstein is one of those extraordinary men who are able to associate themselves simultaneously and successfully with totally dissimilar enterprises. He publishes the Red Book; its staff regards him solely as an expert upon what the public likes to read. The men who help him with the Ravinia Park scheme never for a moment doubt that this is his principal interest in the world. Ever since 1913, when he started the concerts by engaging the Chicago Symphony for a summer, he has kept the programs of the Ravinia music. Now, when asked about the history of his Ravinia Park...
...demand; that leaves much machinery idle and forbids profitable increase of prices. Particularly hard hit in this way have been the three great U. S. woolen goods fabricators-American Woolen Co., Arlington Mills, Botany Consolidated Mills. The newly formed Wool Institute has not so far been able to help...