Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These may still remain under private ownership and operation. However, they must be made to comply to standards of the most rigorous variety which will be set for them by the University. They should be strictly limited in their functions to tutoring of a legitimate sort--legitimate here meaning aid in cases of illness and aid to slow students who have honest difficulties in their courses...
There should be the closest possible co-operation between the college and the tutoring schools. A separate staff would probably be necessary in University Hall to concern itself solely with tutoring bureau relations. Students applying for aid would be recommended to any on a list of approved schools; and conversely, these would accept only tutees sent to them by University officials. A vigil ceaseless as that of the vestal virgins would have to be maintained in order to keep the schools within their proper limits. On the other hand, the faculty could use these same schools as sources of information...
...however, to accept Russian planes and munitions. Off early this week from London for Moscow was Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan M. Maisky. He was carrying home to Dictator Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff the outlines of a plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told that only one kind of support was wanted, Russia was expected to be elated. A successful defense of Poland and Rumania would mean that never would Joseph Stalin's men have to face Adolf Hitler's across...
...Cabinet finally concluded last week that "overwhelming military victories" were insufficient to offset the constant flow of foreign money and materiel into China. In the near future they will: 1) enlist the active assistance of Germany and Italy in bringing "diplomatic pressure" against U. S., French, British and Russian aid to China; 2) sharply curtail the interests of those four nations within China...
...Sarles Durstine had already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s...