Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, onetime boss of the Reichsbank (and a convicted "major Nazi offender" released last fortnight by a German appeals court) got cautiously astride the Marshall Plan fence: "I rejoice over the willingness of the American people to help Germany ... To live from alms kills a man's dignity...
...investment is worthwhile: by discouraging bookmakers from plying their trade at the track, the Pinkerton men increase the take at the pari-mutuel windows (average day's total: $1,800,000). And by hunting down touts-who start most of the rumors about fixed races-the Pinkerton men help maintain public confidence in the New York tracks...
...help The Jockey Club keep horse racing "clean," Pinkerton men have also investigated 1,650 owners and trainers, photographed or fingerprinted 43,000 grooms, exercise boys and jockeys, and photographed 31,000 thoroughbreds. Uniformed policemen patrol the stable area against pyromaniacs, horse-dopers and gamblers 24 hours...
...bitterness over his physical ugliness . . . [but] by making something out of himself." Listeners are told that it will be easier to win the battle with themselves if they have a church's guidance. Those who belong to no church are invited "to discover just how much help you can get when you receive that which only the church can give." In smaller cities, a local clergyman will come on for the local...
...explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron, can best help the worker realize himself by believing "in the right and ability of workers to share in the task of thinking and planning...