Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that though twelve experts from the U. S. Comptroller General's office are now digging through TVA's books, investigation of one Government agency by another would not satisfy the U. S. public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such an inspection. None of them had any private utility connection, he said, nor had Accountant Conick, his choice for the job. Mr. Conick is a checker-upper whose firm (Main & Co.) has often been called in to clean up after Pennsylvania politicians, whose findings drove from office...
...years of record spending that the army has about half the material it needs as a minimum for M Day action. He calculates that the U. S. must spend at least $142,000,000 more to put its army on a "sensible" preparatory footing. Last spring, with the potent help of a White House message, he persuaded Congress to meet the principal deficiency -in anti-aircraft equipment. In Malin Craig's last year the army is spending or allotting $23,000,000 for 230 modern, mobile anti-aircraft guns, with supplementary searchlights, target detectors, etc. etc. Another...
...Minnesota, National Chairman Farley warned Democrats not to play games with Minnesota's Republicans just to beat the Farmer-Laborites: "Any help you give the Republicans . . . in 1938 will help defeat the Democrat party in 1940." Democratic Representative Elmer J. Ryan promptly endorsed his former law partner, Harold E. Stassen, Republican nominee for Governor, instead of Thomas Gallagher, the Democratic candidate. Said he: "If the National Administration were concerned about the strength of the Democratic party in Minnesota, the time to show that concern was two years ago, when the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator were withdrawn...
...pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system of cinematic share cropping showed signs of becoming a definite trend. Agent Selznick announced that Carole Lombard...
...house"-meaning that he permitted no unions. Between 1914 and 1918 Krupp's profits were magnificent. But when the Kaiser came to address Krupp employes in the last days of the War and cried, "We will fight and hold out to the last man. So help me God! Let those who will do this answer me-Yes!"-the workers answered: "Hunger!" The Krupps were not much alarmed by the change of Government in Germany after the War. Their Wartime profits were about 800,000,000 marks and they were given a subsidy to compensate them...