Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help laconic Mr. Smith dig into NLRB, Speaker Bankhead appointed two 100% New Dealers, Massachusetts' Arthur Healey and Utah's Abe Murdock; and two 100% Republicans, Ohio's Harry Rouzohn and Indiana's Charles Halleck...
...Davison and Thomas W. Lamont believed, long before the public did, that a defeat for the Allies would have been defeat for the U. S. (Said Partner Davison later: "Some of us in America realized that this was our war from the start") and bent their energies to help. When Allied purchasing agents in the U. S. began fruitlessly bidding against one another, the Morgans became central purchasing agent to the Allies, and Morgan Partner Edward R. Stettinius (whose Son Edward was to become chairman of U. S. Steel 21 years later) bought $3,000,000,000 worth...
Seven years ago descendants of the owners of the old whaleship John Carver formed American Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched...
...help worried trustees, the State of New Jersey two years ago enacted a law broadening the field of investment for trusts. Last week, Newark's Chancery Court upheld the legality of the law, then went further: it issued a list of common stocks in which New Jersey trustees can legally invest...
...Manhattan, Nurse Edna Burdick was driving along a viaduct when her car blew a tire, crashed through a guardrail, plummeted 100 feet to a sandlot. A policeman rushed up to the wreck. Nurse Burdick, scratched but otherwise uninjured, stepped out, asked him to help find her pocketbook...