Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...
...best hated men in Spain. Miguel Aranda first came to Oviedo in 1934 with the rank of colonel and orders from Madrid to help put down a revolution of Asturian socialists and anarchists against what they saw to be a swiftly developing fascist dictatorship. With ruthless Foreign Legionaries and Moors, imported into Spain for the first time in its history, Aranda did his work well, causing the death of numberless men in a few weeks...
...third-string haltback named Dick Cassiano scored four touchdown to help Pitt overwhelm Ohio Wesleyan...
Jean (Vincent Price) is the fourth-generation butler and valet to the Mariassy family. Old Count Mariassy (Lumsden Hare), perennially in-&-out Prime Minister of Hungary, cannot so much as button his waistcoat without Jean's help, boasts that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things...
...partner in the aircraft business: bluff, sixtyish Frederick Sigrist. After building the yacht Endeavour II for his second Cup challenge, Mr. Sopwith prevailed upon Mr. Sigrist to charter his previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped her towline from Mr. Sigrist's motor yacht Viva and was unsighted for ten anxious days...