Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt for doing nothing about the Sit-Down strikes. Subsequently he made his famed remark (perhaps apocryphal, but truer than history): "You've got to give the cattle [Business] a chance to put some fat on their bones." That spring came the Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well as he could. But the effort killed Joe Robinson. After the funeral at Little Rock, Ark., John Garner went straight to Franklin...
Captain Torby Macdonald, Ken Booth, Austie Harding, and Tim Russell were the upperclassmen on hand yesterday to help Messrs. Harlow, Clark, Fesler, Snyder, Struck, Colwell, and Stahley in their afternoon chores...
Regarding wage increase demands, the University made small concessions to be based on seniority. Workers receiving $14, who include waitresses, pantry, help's hall and glass and silver women were offered a 50 cent raise as of September 1, 1939, provided they had been employed for one year. Two year's service would bring a dollar...
...years Hearst made a thousand city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...
...admits gloomily, Germans echoed the sentiment of her hotel maid, who gave thanks that "we Germans have Adolf Hitler sent by God to help us." But by the next year Germans had begun talking in words that were oblique and ambiguous. They sang more than they cheered; they read new symbolical meanings in the little literature left to them. Germans, decided Nora Waln, were developing a resilience to Hitler as cunning as that of Chinese peasants...