Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt had given the wishes of "merchants" as his reason for making the change, to give them a holiday nearer Labor Day, farther from Christmas. Mrs. Roosevelt reported: "I got a most amusing letter attributing this change to a desire to help a certain race in this country, which is credited, in this note, with doing most of the 'trading' and which, they say, is not interested in American traditions. . . . But . . . how about remembering how the Yankees always were good traders and perhaps some of them still are in the business...
Outside his immediate official family, Frank Murphy has had Franklin Roosevelt's help in strengthening U. S. district and circuit courts, so that he can count on at least one high-calibre judge in each jurisdiction. In Manhattan, he counts on Circuit Judge Robert Porter Patterson, a Republican. In Philadelphia, it is Circuit Judge Francis Biddle, a New Dealer. New tone has been sought for the bench by picking eminent law teachers. Example: Herschel Arant, dean of Ohio State University's Law School, now a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals...
Back to Napoleon? To force Germany to fight on two fronts, to cut her off from the oil and grain fields of East Europe is vital to England and France. To do so they must help their allies in the East. Once war begins, they will be practically cut off from sending aid to Poland, which aims to fight a delaying war, retreating bloodily to Warsaw and the Vistula. If they are also cut off from Turkey, Rumania and Greece, they will not be able to use any of their strength to squeeze Germany between pincers...
...attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which he has been a guest in order to marry her and help her change her life, M. Delaroch assumes a more active role. He blocks the Carey passports, lures Bill into the jungle, tries to teach Manon the virtues of passivity. But Manon, who has taken a good look at Bill, knows what she wants...
Three years ago a new character appeared in the milkshed. Thin-faced, spectacled Archie Wright, onetime representative of the hard-boiled National Maritime Union of the C. I. O., bought a dairy farm near Ogdensburg, N. Y. Between seeing that his cows were milked, he set out to help form the Dairy Farmers' Union. Last year he became its president...