Word: aid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famine are already here." They urged four relief measures: 1) martial law; 2) requisition of all food supplies and materials; 3) coastwise relief for other parts of the island via boats; 4) the drafting of all available manpower for public service. Again Governor Towner cabled. He beseeched all available aid from the Red Cross and other sources. The estimated property damage...
...Baker, National Director of Disaster Relief, hurried to Porto Rico on a destroyer. Public subscriptions were begged from the nation by radio, press and pulpit. Preparations were made to purchase tons of supplies for shipment to the Caribbean. In Florida, Nominee Robinson of the Democracy interrupted his campaigning to aid in relief...
...previous productions of the same kind. The lucky girl is a midinette who, after an innocent cohabitation with the hero in the environs of Montparnasse, almost loses him to a sweet and tough country girl whom his father wishes him to marry. This difficulty is soon adjusted, with the aid of a huge funny waiter, played by Billy House. Billy House moved about the stage like a grinning Guava jelly, singing "Whoopee" with suave insinuations. The girls in the chorus, though they danced well, looked, with one, or possibly two, exceptions, as if they had been chosen from the occupants...
...committee holds a list of rooming houses in the vicinity of Harvard Square and will be ready to aid in the selection of rooms for undergraduates and graduate students. The bureau will remain open until September...
...principal activities between coming and going were thus described by sardonic Reporter Edwin C. Hill in the sedate and newsy Evening Sun: "Having arranged for the movie men and the talkie-movie men and the common or garden camera men and some 15 reporters to crowd, without the aid of a shoe horn, into the reception room of her Hotel McAlpin-suite just before noon today, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the only lady in the history of America who ever walked across the Mohave Desert in an evening frock and French heel shoes, had her very, very golden hair meticulously...