Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill with what amounts to a gentleman's agreement that the unholy alliance between the cane and beet growers on the one hand, and the seaboard refining monopoly on the other, has been terminated by the growers. That means that, hereafter, the refiners' lobby should expect no help from the domestic growers. That is at least a definite step in the right direction...
...public his intentions on the Administration's Far Eastern policy. Just before the convention closed General Butler again took the rostrum, and amid cheers and whistles read a "reply" from the President congratulating them on all their demands, saying: "Other countries must make their damned war without our help." When he finished the General looked up, saying: "It ain't signed. Wouldn't it be fine if we did get such a letter from the President...
...World Wide Broadcasting Foundation ("radio programs of cultural and educational value") operating through Boston's short wave station WINAL, got $40,000 for two years. C. Last autumn there was published in London, with Foundation help, a list of 1,639 scholars (''Scholars in Exile") who had been ousted from academic posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities...
...double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote: "I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you." After Vanderbilt had made good his promise. Walker still pig-headedly refused to talk business, thereby cutting off his one important source of outside help. His last and biggest mistake was to elect himself President of Nicaragua. He now faced the armies of all his Central American neighbor countries, brought U. S. and British battleships hurrying to blockade his ports against new recruits. A match for his Central American enemies, even when his man power...
...Wong, a mandarin of much potency and some parts, was considerably dismayed when he awoke one morning to find his pigtail gone. A hastily-convened assembly of wise men was not much help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes from...