Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swamped with work a few weeks ago, a private secretary named Thelma Goldman in the Detroit headquarters of the United Automobile Workers asked for help, was promptly provided with a trim young blonde fresh from a secretarial school. Put to work on routine typing, the new stenographer tended strictly to business. After a fortnight she went to Thelma Goldman, said: "Maybe you'll think I'm dumb, Thelma, but I still don't know what you people manufacture...
...Whenever the docket of any district court becomes overcrowded the senior judge of the circuit shall appoint a judge from another district to help clean up the accumulation of work. Or if there is no other district judge in the circuit who can be spared, the senior' circuit judge shall appeal to the Chief Justice of the U. S. who shall appoint a district judge from another circuit, preferably adjoining that where the need arises, to help out in the district concerned...
This "Chinese treachery," as indignant Japanese at once branded it, was smartly timed. About 3,000 Japanese troops recently made up the garrison, but 2,900 had just marched away to help suppress "rebellious Chinese" trying to strike a blow for their country at nearby Nanyuan. It was all in the day's work for the Japanese garrison of 100, although taken by surprise and outnumbered by 10-to-1, to stand off the Chinese. These peppered the Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing...
...Wide and Handsome (Paramount). The night in 1859 that Peter Cortlandt (Randolph Scott) takes his grandmother down to Titusville, Pa. to see a medicine show, the show-wagon burns and they take the proprietor's daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs and stringed...
...Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits from his killing to start a one-day corner on the gold market. When President Grant announces that the U. S. Treasury will release unlimited quantities of gold to stabilize the price, Fisk is ruined. Conveniently, at this crisis...