Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rensselaer campus, Robert G. Baumann, 160-pound captain of the college football team and president of the Student Union, briskly assembled his associates and their penny plunder, organized the Taxcentinels. Purpose of the stunt, explained Baumann, was to protest against "hidden taxes." The Taxcentinels signed a pledge "to help fight the growth of taxes which now consume 25? out of every dollar spent by the average person . . . [by paying] one-quarter of the price of all purchases in pennies, in order to dramatize this situation...
...National Association of Manufacturers quickly wired its approval of the plan. "Called in to help," a representative of Carl Byoir & Associates, Manhattan pressagents, began to send out press releases from a Troy hotel suite. Meanwhile, the Taxcentinels set up a booth on the campus, sold pennies to all comers. First purchaser ($5 worth) was Rensselaer's 59-year-old president, neat, energetic Dr. William Otis Hotchkiss, onetime farmer, geologist, consulting engineer and chairman of the Wisconsin State Highway Commission. Said sage Dr. Hotchkiss: "A sure sign of spring. . . . I think it is a laudable purpose for the students...
...materialist idealism." The editors confessed they had only 92? in the bank, issued one of their periodic appeals for funds. Subscribing themselves "Lovingly and confidently yours in Christ the Worker," they wrote: "We have reached rock bottom, we have piled up bills these many weeks. So we beg your help. Please send us what you can and may the Holy Family love you as you love...
...Angeles Humane Department announced that unless help came soon the animals would be mercifully killed in lethal gas chambers. At that, money began to pour in. Actors Katharine Hepburn, Richard Dix, Stuart Erwin, oldtime silent-film Adventuress Kathlyn Williams, others donated checks from $10 to $100. Some 700 animals in the Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus were put on limited rations, the savings given Zoopark. The first of three Sunday benefit performances at the Zoo brought $1,000. Los Angeles schoolchildren scraped together $9 in pennies and dimes. At week's end a new flood-of paying visitors -brought...
...White House, where he was summoned three times last week to exchange ideas with Franklin Roosevelt on the railroad crisis, President John J. Pelley of the American Association of Railroads remarked: "I found the President very sympathetic with our situation and anxious to do anything he can consistently to help...