Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lounging in an old grey suit on the train to Florida City he used his press conference: 1) to lay the ghost of "secrecy" still haunting him for his aid to the French in their U. S. plane-buying (see p. 14); 2) to allay any lingering doubts Business might have about his policies. When asked about a new business "appeasement" program about to be popped by Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt asked: what businessmen need appeasing? No new taxes are planned, he said. With the removal of private obstacles to TVA,* he said, no further Government excursions...
...Author Mumford, Fascism is an "invention of the weak and neurotic" based on the riot act. "Without the cowardly aid of the more civilized nations of the world, Fascism could neither extend its conquests nor even stabilize its domestic regime...
Scarcely had Commissioner Leadbetter appealed for aid than the New Deal's Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation packed up crates of oranges and grapefruit to send to Maine. Few medicines will help victims of scurvy, and best cure for the disease lies in an abundance of natural fruit juices. But although he appreciated Federal aid, Commissioner Lead-better's medical director, Dr. George Holden Coombs, made it clear that proud Republican Maine could solve her scurvy problem her own way. "Vitamin C," he said, ". . . is present in the potatoes which are raised in large quantities there in Aroostook...
...once-golden, once-silver mane is grey and thinning at the top. But he still sports the oversized, low, soft collars and droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion...
...puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin surmounted by a pug nose. Later, over the traditional musician's supper--steak and French fries, this astonishing miss proceeded without the aid of any band to sing a style of lilting jazz with a sincerity seldom heard, and with a real singing voice--with the power and tone all there...