Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other capacity,'' practically made a bid for Alben Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate...
...special job. Last week, under the command of John W. Sinks, Cunard White Star captain, retired in 1934 after 35 years of service, the 65 seamen picked in South Shields emerged from third class of the liner Berengaria in Manhattan. Their "special job''-with the help of 40 Canadians and 40 U. S. engineers and fire-men-was to take the famed Leviathan on her 301st and last sea voyage...
...help untangle this mess, Harry Walker Ely, who had just stepped in as general manager of the six Northwest units of the Scripps League of Newspapers, including the Portland News-Telegram had to abruptly turn his attention from what he had thought was .going to be his big job, the Seattle Star, embattled by a six-month Guild strike...
...past the Wallace's Partner cottage on the dusty Iowa State fair grounds. "There is something terribly pathetic to me in the faces of these farm women," "Uncle" Henry said. "They are so tired and worn and spiritless. There is a mission for someone: to bring material comforts, help and inspiration to the woman who labors on the farm." That was in 1907 and Horace Klein was advertising manager of a nondescript magazine called the Farmer's Wife. Its publisher was Edward A. Webb who also ran The Farmer, a poultry paper. Horace Klein carried back...
...John Bunn took his boys on a transcontinental tour during Christmas vacation, watched them beat every team they met-both with and without his own rules. In Manhattan, playing under the national rules, his team broke the two-year (43-game) winning streak of Long Island University, with much help from an ambidextrous young forward named Hank Luisetti...