Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope that the printing of your article, in a magazine so widely read and highly respected, will acquaint more women with Dr. Read's theories. Perhaps then they will ask their obstetricians what they can do to help themselves in labor, instead of what drugs he is going to use to ease them through a delivery in which they will miss the most wonderful experience of their lives...
...title would make him "principal military adviser" to the President* and to Secretary of Defense Forrestal. More important, he would also sit in as acting chairman at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected to help solve such nagging disputes as the Navy's air role, the strategic demands of the Pacific, the allocation of military largess to signers of the proposed North Atlantic pact...
Regularity Counts. County Judge Harry Truman took a fancy to the youngster. When Senator Truman headed up the War Investigating Committee, he sent for Boyle to be his assistant counsel. In 1944 Boyle was called in again to help ailing Bob Hannegan run the Roosevelt-Truman campaign. On the side-the patronage boss gets no pay-he makes an unspectacular but comfortable living practicing law in Washington...
...good, fighting, constructive speech." Snorted Michigan's Representative Paul Shafer: "The Republican Party's No. 1 ghost has walked again." Ohio's Senator John Bricker, who was Dewey's running mate in 1944, concluded: "The party's going to be all right. All dinners help...
...save every time-tried fundamental upon which the unique and precious character of Americanism depends ... I want the Republican Party to be liberal enough to march with the times, to dare new answers to new problems, and to use the power and strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts to pin a label on the party's philosophy, instead of letting the party's deeds earn their own label...