Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memorable for Harry Hopkins' speech in Iowa, which may help decide the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 (see p. 11), last week was also punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey...
...workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose. And among the things Mr. Bose is known to have in mind to help "persuade" the British in India to give the country more self-rule are civil disobedience, a general strike, no-rent and no-tax campaigns...
...sold them to David Milton, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., for a neat profit of $750,000. After that, he bought control of Phoenix Securities Corp., an inconspicuous investment trust then worth some $4,000,000, lured young Walter Mack Jr. away from Equity Corp. to help him run it. Financier Mack comes of a wealthy family, was 1917 at Harvard, operated a cotton mill for a while, married a granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn, eventually developed a penchant for politics and financial reorganizations...
Under the joint direction of Nadia Boulanger and G. Wallace Woodworth, the concert will help to establish a fund for the presentation of a scholarship to some promising young composer, Nadia Boulanger is the sister of the composer whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1918, and in whose memory the scholarship is to be given...
...electric shaver is the culmination of years of effort by scientists and research men to help those unfortunate individuals who shave every morning, and then find that at five o'clock they are right back where they were in the morning. And yet what would you have them do? You, you heartless and unforeseeing fiends, would have them look at the radio section to make sure that they don't disturb your programs. this is of course only the beginning of your program ... Let me assure you ... that we "electric shavers" shall fight you tooth and nail...