Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 6 Henry Wallace arrived in Evansville for a rally. An organization named "The Spirit of Kilroy" picketed the meeting with the aid of high school boys, some town people, and some students. The pickets shouted, broke windows, and broke into the meeting, afterwards attacking Wallace's entourage...
...party songs about "my dear little Markos." There were still no songs about the new guerrilla commander, Georgios Vrontissios, alias Goussias, a former printer whose mustache is considerably less impressive than his predecessor's. According to the likeliest of many conflicting reports from the frontier regions, aid to the rebels from Tito's Yugoslavia seemed to have stopped almost entirely, although Bulgaria and Albania were faithfully carrying...
...Fleet, who has a soldier's impatience with political monkeyshines, leaves most of the dealings with the Greek cabinet to Ambassador Henry F. Grady, who heads the American mission for aid to Greece. Van Fleet is inclined to agree with Greek soldiers like Private Georgios Papageorgiou who sometimes says that, when he finishes with the Communists, he will go to Athens and settle the politicians' hash...
...needed Brazil as a strategic base and as a continuing source of essential minerals (manganese, quartz, mica). Today, Brazil is the cornerstone of the U.S. policy of hemispheric defense. Brazil, which benefited greatly from U.S. wartime expenditures, looks to the U.S. in peacetime for the aid that private and public capital can give to the building of the country. Brazilians want to tap U.S. technical skill for the development of the natural resources that are spread in abundance over the world's fourth largest nation. In area, only the U.S.S.R., China and Canada are larger than Brazil...
...days, making two or three speeches each day, to raise money through United Jewish Appeal for the state of Israel. To Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews, whom he sees in nearly equal numbers, he says the same thing: it is the responsibility of U.S. Jews to give Israel material aid, in return for which they will get spiritual food. "In Israel," he says, "we have the responsibility of sustaining the spiritual lives of Jews all over the world...