Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mills may well be irked with the President for another reason as well. Last fall, when Johnson requested his help in passing a bill to suspend a 7% investment credit, Mills asked for a favor in return. "I want you to issue a proclamation proclaiming 'Duck Day' in Stuttgart, Arkansas," he drawled. At first speechless, Johnson finally replied incredulously: "You want me to proclaim 'Duck Day'?' "Yes," insisted Mills. "In Stuttgart, Arkansas." The President said he would. The investment credit was suspended, thanks to Mills's help. But somehow, Duck Day in Stuttgart never...
...policy. Taken as a starting point for debate-and Fulbright has said that he has no immediate intention of putting the matter before the full Senate-it might be the signal for a healthy airing of differences between two of the major branches of U.S. Government. It can hardly help figuring to some extent in the 1968 campaign. Since it is merely an indication of sentiment, it is unlikely to cause Johnson any sleepless nights. Its strong language and bipartisan support might, however, induce some thought as he turns out the lights...
...Through the wreckage and out of the smoke came this man carrying a small child," said Fireman Paul Dickmann. "The man's hair was all burned off, his face was burned, and there appeared to be flesh hanging down from his hand. 'Get to someone who needs help,' he said. Then he collapsed in my arms with the child." A 15-month-old baby lived through the crash, as did Chris Haile, 5, and his little sister Eileen, 2, whose parents were killed; 15 adults survived the impact, but four later died...
...chemical firm, four clothing factories, a construction company, and a transportation line so expansion-minded that it recently sent a fleet of twelve buses across the country to Watts, the Negro district of Los Angeles. Bad weather and other difficulties reduced the arriving field to three, but further help has been pledged...
...assets of the Southern Consumers Cooperative, a Negro self-help agency launched on a shoestring in Louisiana, have risen from $25,000 to $200,000 in two years. Harlem's Freedom National Bank, which opened its doors in 1964 with an authentic black hero, Jackie Robinson, as chairman of the board, makes $25.2 million available for loans to Negroes, whom white-managed financial institutions systematically reject as bad risks. Economic status is only one of many new goals. The Negro theater, yesterday nothing more than a dream, is a flourishing reality today, with black companies and stages all over...