Word: aid
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...career which has included winning appearances in numerous championship meets and teaching at Blandensburg, Md., High School, Columbia Grammar High School in New York, and Ohio State and Sampson, N.Y., College. He also has been field representative for the American Red Cross in the North Atlantic area, teaching first aid and water safety...
Harry Truman was looking for no such left-handed compliments. He was annoyed at Scott Lucas. "Why, oh why do they make statements when they go out of here?" he asked an aide plaintively. Truman got Lucas on the phone, brushed aside his explanations, and laid down the law. There would be no adjournment, Truman said, until his minimum program was passed. That included federal aid to education, housing and slum clearance and a 75/ minimum wage. He wanted at least a token civil-rights bill- either antilynching or anti-poll tax. Truman conceded that there was no chance this...
Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
...Next Step. Should the West, too want an economic arrangement? Allied views differed. Some ECAmericans, led by European ECA Chief Averell Harriman, believed East-West trade would bring more benefits to the West (in raw materials, less U.S. aid, loosening of the Russian hold on satellite nations, etc.) than to the East. Others held that a restoration of trade would not pay off unless it was accompanied by an eastward advance of Western ideology. In return for economic benefits Eastern Europe must grant democratic political reforms...
From the cradle, Goethe had both talent and audacity. At seven, he believed that his future greatness was assured by the stars at his birth. When his mother told him that men have to get along without the aid of the stars, the little boy retorted: "I can't get along with what suffices other people...