Word: help
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Minn., one-time Interim Senator Guy Victor Howard totted up the financial and political rewards of the two months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
...before the barometer of farm income turns up again. Already the rain has made his Presidential boom soggy. Jim Farley's assertion that the Democrats could not pick an ex-Republican as their candidate in 1940 and the Janizariat's anger at Wallace's refusal to help purge Iowa's Senator Gillette did not do the Wallace boom so much damage as the defeat last month of his Iowa political ally, Governor Kraschel. As a boy, however, at the age when most moppets hope to grow up to be President, Henry Wallace once answered a kindly...
...functions assumed by the Hays organization is to help studios prevent fan magazines from outdoing Hollywood itself in bad taste, scandal and pornography. Said Hays Organization Public Relations Man Tom Pettey: "The article is pretty bad. The title is even worse. ... I don't know what we'll do about it but we'll certainly take some action...
...group, of which Joseph Prescott 4G, an assistant in English, is the chairman, is attempting to "make obscure plays get up and walk around," while making the study of the drama congenial and amusing. Several men who inquired whether the group's study would be a help in passing their PhD's were unceremoniously dismissed...
...just what the correct picture is--the view novelists like Hardy actually saw as they wrote. This man has tramped around a lot and taken many colored photographs of out-of-the-way places like Egdon Heath and Stevenson's favorite hang-outs. Pictures like his can no doubt help a lot to clear up the hazy perspective of fellows like...