Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted an explanation of F. D. R.'s popularity. May I draw a little comparison to help you to the solution...
...everywhere among their customers. "This " . . reactionary line of thinking is thrown into our salesmen five or six times every day and it is having its effect. . . . Salesmen, as you know, do a great deal of talking themselves and if properly handled they can be of a great deal of help to the Party...
...Smith last year (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937). Last week Mr. Smith was angrily explaining that the President had been misinformed: his reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue became a boomerang to improve, instead of diminish, "Cotton Ed's" chance of a sixth consecutive term...
...rdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed. He did not plan bond issues, increased taxation. Born and brought up as a common man, he decided like a common man that the problem was one of elementary subtraction...
...refused to be dispossessed until finally the landlord's men had burned them out of their shacks. Said Lázaro Cárdenas in a cold rage to his host: "Don't you know that it is the duty of the rich and fortunate to help the poor? Are you not ashamed to burn the houses of a few poor peons because they want a little piece of land? Don't you know that it is the duty of the Government to help poor peons to. become citizens...