Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meals and mail, Jim told her she was "sweet" and "beautiful, & had mighty nice clothes and a pretty voice; Lulu Belle was glad. He said he guessed he'd die in the State's gas chamber; Lulu Belle was heartstricken. He said if only she would help him escape he'd go to church, be a good boy, come back for her in time. Lulu Belle believed...
...Governor George Howard Earle of Pennsylvania (candidate for the Senate), Senator Joseph F. Guffey and all the principal Democratic candidates for State offices called on Franklin Roosevelt to be photographed with him for campaign purposes. They denied that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending a grand jury investigation. These decisions made...
Davis and Judge Arthur H. James (for Governor) capitalizing this issue, Chief Democrat Roosevelt's help was sorely needed to prevent a return of pivotal Pennsylvania to the Republican column...
...Madison, Wis., a hurriedly called caucus of State Democratic leaders chose State Senator Harry Bolens of Port Washington, Wis. to be their candidate for Governor. Reason: their primary-chosen nominee, Robert K. Henry, withdrew last fortnight hoping to help his Republican rival beat Progressive Governor Philip La Follette, who has been elected twice in three-cornered races...
...help Premier Daladier get France "back to normalcy" as soon as possible, President Albert Lebrun and the Cabinet signed over to him decree powers running until Jan. 1, 1939. In democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests...