Word: help
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throughout the evening the other Colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who in spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
Fact No. 1. The American Tariff League, pledged to protection, had a six-week alliance with the Republican National Committee during the 1928 campaign. It spent $40,000 to help elect Herbert Hoover, but failed to report its political expenditures. Its officers reached into Congress and hired two U. S. employes as "Washington correspondents." They were Edward Nelson Dingley, 68, white-haired tariff expert on the payroll of the Senate Finance Committee; and Clayton Moore, clerk of the House Ways & Means Committee. Expert Dingley is the son of the late Nelson Dingley Jr., for 18 years a representative from Maine...
...Within 48 hours after this arrangement had been entered into, it became evident to me that instead of an attempt to help and protect, I had placed myself in the hands of those who were determined to make capital of the difficulties of my organizations. Naturally I resisted this attempt at destruction with all my strength of mind and body, with the result that I found myself arrayed against the most powerful forces in the financial world...
...matter where I turned, every door was closed to me. Banking friends who were lifelong acquaintances came to me secretly and told me they wanted to help but they dared not; that to come to my assistance at this time would bring down upon their heads the resentment and enmity of the most powerful forces on 'The Street.' They told me the gods of Wall Street had practically proclaimed my doom and that nothing on earth could prevent this great money-machine from mowing me down...
...asked the U. S. State Department to get the English and Norwegian whaling ships at the outside of the ice pack to help his ships break through. Britain and Norway urged the whaling companies to order their ships to the rescue, if rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...