Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does it require any studied argument to make a Christian of John Tyler. As a member of the Episcopal Church he talked the language of Jesus. When being solicited to help the son of one of his political persecutors he said, "I would seek no sweeter revenge over my enemies than to do them favors...
...proposed to set up a Federal fund from which cooperative associations of farmers could borrow money to help them market their products. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed a Federal farm board to administer the fund. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed that when the producers of a given commodity had produced more of that commodity than they could market in an "orderly" fashion, or more than they were willing to try to market with the aid of the loan fund only, that an "equalization fee" should be levied upon each unit...
...have a live customer on the books than a corpse. Until you get an industry on a sound basis you cannot move forward half an inch and you will never get fresh capital, enthusiasm or anything, and nothing but ruin stares you in the face. No Government can help in this cutting out of deadwood...
...Blanca. Result: Captain Hunter and Corporal William L. Williamson were killed, as were five Nicaraguans. The most lofty concept of what the U. S. is accomplishing in Nicaragua was recently voiced by U. S. Marine Corps Commander Major General John A. ("Leatherneck") Lejeune. Said he: "The Nicaraguan people need help, and the Marines are doing God's work in playing the Good Samaritan to them...
Last week another President, Calvin Coolidge, clad in black academy robes and mortarboard cap with gold tassel, stood before a microphone on the Georgian portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added...