Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your magizine is always printing letters condeming His Excelency Herr Hitler. I don't do much writing, but I could not help voicing my disagrement. I give great Hitler credit for doing what the Kaisar did not complete. Hitler has made himself the king of Europe by proving to the world that France and England are cowards...
Helen Gould was not only interested in railroads, but a notable patron of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. One of the first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...
...brigade, slipping its rookies into Spain and naming the outfit (for Abraham Lincoln is now a Communist hero by adoption). But many other men of any or no political faith, who saw in Spain a battle for democracy, also backed it. And one who put up $10,000 to help repatriate Lincoln brigadiers was Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...best place for an airport was determined as early as 1931 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Credit for putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor...
...average of more than 6,000 people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase...