Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Jr., called "Chip" because his father was called "Wood," is an ebullient, convivial Georgian of 51 who has lived up to his nickname. In 1933 Chip left his Atlanta architectural and engineering firm, which had consulted in some $250,000,000 worth of building projects before Depression, to help Businessman William Woodin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Sober Henry Morgenthau relieved him of most of his important duties. But in Washington, where business often mixes with politics, Chip was meanwhile establishing a reputation as the Capital's greatest little mixer. After newshawks caught him and Presidential Secretary...
...General Assembly, investigating the $5,000,000 contracts of the Department of Public Welfare for insane asylum buildings at Milledgeville and other projects, turned up one with Robert & Co. which promised the firm 6% (some $300,000) for "architectural and engineering services." Finding that the services consisted partly of help in securing a $2,200,000 RFC loan and $1,800,000 PWA grant for the project, the committee balked. The Georgia House passed a resolution calling for cancellation of the Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen baldly accused Chip Robert of "stealing...
Scarcely had Commissioner Leadbetter appealed for aid than the New Deal's Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation packed up crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook...
Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is mean, tightlipped, greedy; his brother Ben (Charles Dingle) shrewder, more capable, more sardonic; their sister Regina (Tallulah Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...
...make that dream come true. For the duration of the War he toured England and the U. S., playing, speaking at dinners, lobbying with politicians, devoting all the proceeds of his concerts to Polish relief. At this tea-table politics he was a great success. In 1917, with the help of his close friend, Colonel House, he prevailed upon President Wilson to include an independent Poland in his proposals for European peace. When, at the end of the War, the Allies asked Paderewski to organize a stable Polish government, the pianist took up politics in earnest. In a vote like...