Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans in Maryland to help his enemy Senator Tydings defeat his friend Representative Lewis;-* and for Republicans in Georgia to help his enemy Senator George defeat his friend Lawrence Sabyllia Camp...
...this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken...
...Numbers to betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
Working through the University's extension department, with the help of its big, forthright director, Rev. Dr. Moses Mathias Coady, Father Tompkins preached the doctrines of cooperation so effectively that Nova Scotia today has 142 flourishing credit unions (small banks with revolving funds), 42 cooperative stores, 28 cooperative lobster and fish processing plants...
Captain Dollar died in 1932 and his son, R. (for Robert) Stanley, fat, red, fiftyish, took over. Trained in the Dollar lumber camps, R. Stanley had a hard time figuring out the financial maze his father had managed so shrewdly. He got help from Herbert and Mortimer Fleishhacker and their Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. Straightway, the Dollar maze got mazier. Criss-crossed family corporations were set up, existing companies expanded. Soon the Dollar Line owed Anglo California some $3,000,000; and of the Dollar stock, the Fleishhackers owned 109,000 shares, the Dollars...