Word: help
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every train that a tourist is likely to use is now air-conditioned. . . . Many of the leading hotels in the chief cities are also air-conditioned. When they are not, a firm request that all the heat be turned off and kept off will usually help...
...Government persuaded itself that the worst of the Tientsin affair was over, that the Japanese, who had agreed to a conference at Tokyo, were willing to settle it as an isolated problem without discussing the fundamental issues-Britain's rights in her Chinese settlements and her privilege to help whom she pleases in the Sino-Japanese War. The British were heartened when the Japanese eased the blockade of the British Concession at Tientsin; partial milk delivery was resumed, food became more plentiful, and the stripping of British subjects was discontinued...
...museum does not care to be of immediate practical use to the people who maintain it, help them to more intelligent enjoyment of daily life by adding interest to the common interest of that life, and seeks only to arouse astonishment, awe, and a harmful reverence by means of objects rare, old. costly, and of aristocratic history, it needs only acquire such objects, place them on walls or pose them in cases, speak with seeming authority of Art, Beauty, Esthetics, Styles, Periods, and the like, and rest content...
Absent from the fortnight trial was Massachusetts' Senator David Ignatius Walsh, who introduced a bill to help the bond redemption by Congress legislation. To lobby for the bill "Peewee" and her pals were flown to Washington for champagne parties. Said Buckner, "It never occurred to me that I had to become a monk. . . ." But for throwing away $12,500 of bondholders' funds on the parties, as chairman of bondholders' protective committee, as well as the bond rigging, Bondster Buckner and his friend Gillespie were convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, may have to spend 37 years...
Starting his campaign without help from Manhattan brokerage houses, which had no desire to exchange shots with National City interests, young "Lang" Williams spent two years collecting proxies, saw his ammunition dump scattered to the four winds of Depression in the frenzied selling of the fall of 1929. But carrying the banner for his family house he started over again, by April 1930 had gathered enough proxy shot & shell to dislodge the Swenson management...