Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Europe with shaking knees found itself last week on the brink of war (see p. 17), and foreign statesmen hoped that a firm U. S. attitude would help avert it, President Roosevelt performed change of face as sudden, though perhaps not as effective, as that which upset the World Monetary & Economic Conference in 1933. Apparently fearing that his and Secretary Hull's recent, repeated condemnations of autarchies and aggressors too definitely aligned the U. S. with England and France if Germany provoked a war, Mr. Roosevelt suddenly lashed out at "some" U. S. editors and columnists. He said...
...room. The current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran had been for a year a cog in the legal staff of President Hoover's RFC. Ben Cohen had signed on to help James Landis draft the Securities Exchange Act. Thrown together on this job, Corcoran & Cohen have been inseparable since...
...Trade Boards," which the Minister may appoint in any trade which he considers lacks proper regulatory machinery. In 1938, trade boards were applied to the baking and road-making trades. Their job: to help employers and employes in those trades get organized...
...coccidioidal granuloma. Any time after an attack of "valley fever," about one patient in 500 develops symptoms of tuberculosis: enlargement of lymph nodes, lesions of the bones. Large ulcers develop all over the body and after extended suffering, 50% of the patients die. Medicine can offer them no help, for doctors know little of the course of the disease...
...With the help of his "quintet" (which consists not of five, but of six instrumentalists), Composer Scott has recently created a "jazz laboratory" at CBS. Here, with recording equipment, engineers and arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings...