Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something" that Acheson referred to was Article 3 of the treaty, which commits all members to "selfhelp" and "mutual aid." Once the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty, said Acheson, it could not consistently repudiate the treaty's commitment to assist Western Europe with arms, but it could reserve the right to determine how much aid the U.S. should provide. The arms program, said Acheson, would be only one-sixth to one-seventh of what the treaty nations would provide for themselves...
...busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
Beefy Philip P. Hannah, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio A.F.L., followed through with a strong speech for withholding U.S. technical and financial aid from countries which limited political and industrial freedom. "We do not care," said Hannah, "whether a sister country's regime is conservative, liberal, democratic, socialistic, oligarchic, libertarian or collectivism We only ask that it grant . . . that wide range of freedom which is associated with true civilization itself...
Gardner lives on a 3,000-acre ranch about 100 miles from Los Angeles, with a staff of eight-including a business manager, secretaries and household help. His mail is peppered with requests for legal aid, and frequently he rides forth to aid the underdog. His conditions for taking on such cases are unvarying: the person must have been convicted of a major crime, he must have no money, he must have exhausted all other legal means...
...usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children are out from under--at Harvard, say--is truly alarming. Lost, she turns up at the local women's club, gardening, or ladies' aid, and thinks of what her children were like a few years ago. And then, on the second Sunday of May, comes Her Day, and with it a box of chocolate brandy delights. Ah, mother love...