Word: aid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overwhelmed by these workings of the law, unable to touch her capital, Mrs. McCullough wondered how she was going to defend herself. Columnist Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
...realizes that this objective is not merely an economic proposition, but that it will take a large measure of political union as well. EGA also realizes that the objective cannot be reached in a few years, and certainly not by 1952, when Marshall Plan aid to Europe ends. But EGA believes that nothing short of full economic integration can boost Western Europe's industrial output enough to end its dependence...
...gist of Tsiang's 17,000 word indictment was familiar, but it was being presented formally for the first time at the bar of world opinion. Russia, said Tsiang, had systematically given military, economic, diplomatic and moral aid to the Chinese Communist rebels. It was thereby guilty of violating both its treaty of friendship with China and the U.N. Charter itself. "I know that the General Assembly has not a single rifle or a single plane," said Tsiang. "[But] it has at its disposal a great fund of moral power over the peoples of the world...
Tsiang urged a moral judgment against Russia, a denial of aid and recognition to the Chinese Communists. "Let the General Assembly say to the millions of fighters for freedom in China: 'We are with...
...After aid to refugee students comes relief for non-chartered universities. Many student clinics were damaged during communal rioting; WSSF is attempting to rebuild and restock them through funds raised in such drives as the present Council campaign...